==Further reading==
* Cimino, Richard P. ''Lutherans today: American Lutheran identity in the twenty-first century'' (2003) 248 pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=C7Mbcm7oAlMC&pg=PA102&dq=elca&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES excerpt and text search]
*Hofrenning, Daniel, Janelle Sagness, and L. DeAne Lagerquist. "Evangelical Lutheran Church of America'' in ''Pulpit and Politics: Clergy in American Politics at the Advent of the Millennium'' ed. by Corwin E. Smidt. (2004) pp 43-58.
* Kleingartner, Connie Marie. "Honoring Our Past, Embracing Our Future: A Qualitative View of First-Wave Women Clergy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America." PhD U. of St. Thomas, St. Paul 1999. 180 pp. DAI 2001 61(7): 2765-2766-A. DA9980866
* Trexler, Edgar R. ''Anatomy of a merger: people, dynamics, and decisions that shaped the ELCA'' (1992) 286 pages
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