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Look Inside – Leading With Courage and Faith

Leading With Courage and Faith - Canada Lutheran Magazine - ELCIC
In 2007, Susan Johnson (she/her) was installed as the fourth National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). She became the youngest person to be elected as National Bishop, as well as the first individual to serve in the position who has come out as queer. In the years since, she has been re-elected in 2011, 2015, and 2019. Now, after four terms of service, spanning 18 years of ministry leading the ELCIC as National Bishop, Rev. Johnson is retiring. I’m pleased to see that the ELCIC has really become a missional church; it is more outward looking...
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