(RNS) — When Imran Siddiqui's name was put forward for vice president of the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, he figured, why not fill out the paperwork? He didn't expect to make it far in the process. After all, every one of the more than 800 voting members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Churchwide Assembly could nominate up to three candidates for vice president, he said. And nobody knew who Siddiqui, a senior investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor and current vice president of the Southeastern Synod of the ELCA, was.

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