[Honorary Serb]

NALC will ordain women.

If it weren’t for the insistence on women’s ordination, all the conservative/confessional Lutherans in the ELCA and LCMC would join LCMS, the Orthodox Church, or the Roman Catholic Church.

[longtermmemmory]

they are staying because of the ordination of women? i would think it would be the opposite.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I'm glad I left the ELCA for the LCMS--no women clergy. These people will eventually be back in the same soup they think they're escaping now.

They are willing to take a half step to get back to Biblical principles but they're not willing to go all the way.

[SmithL]

NALC will ordain women.

If it weren’t for the insistence on women’s ordination, all the conservative/confessional Lutherans in the ELCA and LCMC would join LCMS, the Orthodox Church, or the Roman Catholic Church.

ELCA, LCMC, and probably NALC, celebrate open communion. LCMS & WELS celebrate close/closed communion.

Like women's ordination, that's a deal-breaker for some people.