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Emily Scott and Mieke Vandersall

Emily Scott is a graduate of Yale Divinity School, and a candidate for ordination in the Lutheran Church (ELCA). She runs St. Lydia's, a dinner church in Gowanus, and plays the trombone. She has her own share of dog-eared novels.

Mieke Vandersall is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary in the City of new York and is an out lesbian Presbyterian Pastor (yes, those words can fit in the same sentence). She is the Executive Director of Presbyterian Welcome, a non-profit organization that works for LGBT people in religious settings. She is also beginning a new congregation, titled for the moment as "A (Not So) Churchy Experience." Mieke also plays the fiddle and has an addiction problem with yarn, beads, and mason jars.

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