Rev. Sharon F. Kelly, PhD. Long term Lutheran still searching for what is yet to unfold.

Dr. Sharon Kelly, grew up in Baltimore with family values that were and are 'upwardly mobile.'  Gifts and skills were to be nurtured, with final goals unclarified, but expected.  Her local pastor led her to seminary at Gettysburg, a Lutheran Church in America school, while her church background was in the American Lutheran Church.  While that seems immaterial in the 21st century, it created interesting choices and challenges at the end of the 20th.  Like a number of women of color, her longest call was seven years. Dr. Kelly completed her doctoral degree by resigning as an academic advisor at a community college during the 2nd worst economic crisis in U.S. history (2009). More recently, she completed two interim ministries that permitted her to be near her family during her father’s health crisis and subsequent death.  She highlights the image of struggle that face many of our female colleagues, and women of color.

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