Katie Langston: From Mormon missionary to Lutheran pastor
Earlier this year, Religion News Service ran a story on Katie Langston, who ordained and installed at New Promise Lutheran in St. George on February 4.
“Langston ‘tried millions of ways’ to make Mormonism work, but she eventually found peace in the Lutheran Church (ELCA) and began to pursue a path toward ordination. Her parents and husband, who are still Latter-day Saints, were supportive, but ‘they were heartbroken.’”
View the story here, visit her website, and learn about her new memoir, “Sealed: An Unexpected Journey Into the Heart of Grace.
From Religion News Service:
Katie Langston didn’t know much about Lutheranism when she enrolled in a Lutheran seminary. She only knew Mormonism, the religion of her childhood, had become wrapped up with both joy and pain, and the pain had started to be more prominent.
It hadn’t always been that way. As Langston recounts in her new memoir, “Sealed: An Unexpected Journey Into the Heart of Grace,”there were many gifts from her Mormon childhood. Her parents were both converts who met each other after their missions and ventured to Utah for college.
“They got married and settled out there, and decided to raise their family in Zion. We were a very devout family, very conservative,” Langston told Religion News Service.
