page_title: Margot Käßmann
section_title: Published opinions of the Evangelical church
hierarchical_section_title: Margot Käßmann / Published opinions of the Evangelical church
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context_page_description: Margot Käßmann is a Lutheran theologian, who was Landesbischöfin of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover in Germany. On October 28, 2009, she was elected to lead the Evangelical Church in Germany, a federation of Protestant church bodies in Germany. She stepped down from both offices on February 24, 2010 following a drunk-driving incident. After serving as an "Reformation Ambassador" for the 500th anniversary of Reformation, she retired in 2018.
context_section_description: Käßmann promotes larger emphasis on Christianity in the Protestant church, compared to past decades; for example, she is concerned by the fact that lessons for confirmation candidates focus more on cults and drugs than on the Bible. She argues for a clearer spiritual profile in church-run facilities, for example, more Bible stories being told in Protestant kindergartens rather than only secular songs being sung. In her opinion, children and adults should pray more, and churches should look like churches and not like noncommittal community centers.
  She also criticises a number of positions of the Roman Catholic Church. For example, she disagrees with some of the Roman Catholic teachings about homosexuality, artificial contraception, action on reducing the spread of AIDS, ordination of women and celibacy.
caption: Margot Käßmann in profile
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