minnesota frost

Celebrated lesbian pastors Anita C. Hill, Ruth Frost, and Phyllis Zillhart have been received as clergy at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Saint Paul, Minnesota. All three pastors had been ordained “extraordinary” in previous years, although unrecognized officially until now. Being deemed “extraordinary” in the Luther Denomination means that they went above and beyond the call of duty and the usual practices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Pastor Hill was ordained “extraordinary” originally in 2001 with Frost and Zillhart back in 1990 (after being denied ordination by the ELCA in 1989).