For perhaps the first time, a Utah native will lead Salt Lake City's Community of Christ congregation.
movement, which sought to extend priesthood ordination to women in the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Although not involved in the push for ordination herself, Mangelson said Kelly’s treatment left her feeling as though she no longer could be a part of the church that had raised her.
Mangelson threw herself into the Community of Christ, becoming an elder in 2018 and later completing a master’s degree in religion from church-owned“Having that LDS background and then this emerging understanding of who Community of Christ is,” she said, “has really allowed me to kind of fill that gap between members of the two churches.” Pastor Brittany Mangelson poses leads the Salt Lake City congregation of the Community of Christ in Millcreek, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023.
“Once we had done all that background work,” Dalton said, “it was pretty easy to come up with Brittany’s name.” For her part, Mangelson has watched attendance grow steadily from an average of 15 to 50 in the Millcreek meetinghouse at 2747 E. Craig Drive , with as many as 150 “orbiting the congregation.” Of those in attendance, usually half or more are kids.
Brittany Mangelson gives Tyler Marz a hug after ordaining him an elder in the Salt Lake City Community of Christ Church on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. By far the biggest rub comes from those who feel like newcomers only want to talk about “their Mormon baggage,” while they would rather “move on.”
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