
Emmy Kegler is a queer Christian mother, writer, pastor, and speaker known as to ministry on the margins of the church.
Emmy has a Grasp’s in Divinity from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minn., and is an ordained pastor within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She was raised within the Episcopal Church and spent a while in evangelical and non-denominational traditions earlier than discovering her residence within the ELCA. For six years she served because the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Northeast Minneapolis, a small servant-hearted neighborhood congregation centered on feeding the hungry and neighborhood outreach, the place she co-founded the Queer Grace Group, a gaggle of LGBTQIA+ Christians within the Twin Cities assembly for worship, Bible research, and fellowship.
Emmy’s first guide, One Coin Discovered: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins, tells her story as a queer Christian known as to ordained ministry and the way it fashioned her relationship with Scripture. Her second guide, All Who Are Weary: Easing the Burden on the Stroll with Psychological Sickness, presents a pastoral and Scriptural accompaniment to these going through signs and diagnoses of psychological sickness together with the households, mates, communities, pastors, and therapists who take care of them.
When her son was born, Emmy transitioned out of known as ministry. She now serves because the Editor of the Church Anew weblog, the place she helps curate a tremendous assortment of latest and long-time authors that share a recent, daring, and devoted witness for the church.
As a preacher and author, she is obsessed with curating worship and theological practices that dismantle boundaries to these traditionally marginalized by Christian apply. She believes in and works for a church rooted in accessibility, intentionality, integrity, and transformation, figuring out that God is already out forward of us creating expansive area for these most hungry for the great and liberating information of Jesus.
Emmy lives in Minneapolis and has a life filled with preschooler-chasing alongside her spouse Michelle.










