Kristen Capel is the lead pastor at Easter Lutheran Church in Eagan, Minn., one of the largest Lutheran congregations in the U.S. Read a Sept. 22, 2011, story from the Metro Lutheran about the importance of her appointment.

Ordain Women Now is an organization that advocates the ordination of women clergy in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the more conservative Lutheran denomination in the United States. Elizabeth Goodine is the group’s president. Contact via the website.

Paul Robert Sauer is associate editor of the journal Lutheran Forum in Delhi, N.Y., which covers both the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denominations. In the summer 2009 issue, he called for closing one of the LCMS’ two seminaries because they had grown too similar to each other, and because of a decline in […]

Sally Peters is director of the Center for Lifelong Learning at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. In July 2011, she led a session on vocation in contemporary life at Princeton Theological Seminary’s conference “Perspectives on Vocation for the 21st Century.”

The website of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has a “Newsroom” page providing news releases, resources, and headlines for journalists and members of the congregation. The Church is based in St. Louis.

ELCA News Service is the media arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is based in Chicago.

The Lutheran World Federation is a global organization that works to “put faith into action within and beyond the communion, and seek God’s Word and Spirit to guide us.” 

Lutheran World Relief works in 35 countries on issues such as water accessibility, disaster relief and supporting women’s businesses.