As LGBTQ History Month comes to a close, meet someone who made history very recently: the Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer was ceremonially installed in September as a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, making Rohrer the first openly transgender bishop in a major Christian denomination.
They now oversee nearly 200 congregations in Central and Northern California and Northern Nevada as bishop of ELCA's Sierra Pacific Synod.
Before becoming bishop, Rohrer was pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco's Outer Sunset neighborhood. In a half-hour conversation from St.
John's Lutheran Church in Oakland last Friday, Rohrer spoke with me about their faith journey; about moving away from fear toward greater acceptance, love, and