Are ELCA congregations more likely to call a woman pastor? Seems as though they are being discriminatory in a bad sense. As someone who has been either LC-MS or WELS, it’s hard for me to consider such a call as “divine”.
I think congregations with a woman pastor are more likely to have an all or mostly female congregation also. There’s a PCUSA congregation in the DFW area with not only a female pastor but an almost all female elder board. The female pastor also complained that all the men she met were either “threatened by a strong woman”(code speak for men who disagreed with her) or “wanted a mommy to baby them”(code speak for men who agreed with her). As far as I know, she is still single(shock! shock!).