Call for Papers for Steadfast Quarterly and Posting of the Recent Issue
(The latest isue of the Steadfast Quarterly is now on the site – click here to see it. It is mailed out to…
Month: February 2009
Uncle Sam Says It’s All Over – It’s All Over but Coming Clean with Confession and Consideration of Resignation, by Pastor Rossow
It looks like all of the temporal aspects of the Issues, Etc. trademark case have been taken care of, now we just have…
Jesus First, aka JerryPAC: “Reporting for duty!” (by Pr. Charles Henrickson)
Jesus First–aka JerryPAC, Geezers First, Jesus’ Fist, and ***us First–is back and gearing up the machinery for another campaign. Like John Kerry standing…
Petition Reaches 2,000 and has Done the Job! A Few Select Quotes…
Yesterday morning the petition to ask the LCMS Board of Directors, which includes President Kieschnick and First Vice President William Dinkelman, to stop…
Clarity on the Rightness or Wrongness of Lawsuits Among Christians from our BJS Theologian-Blogger Pastor Klemet Preus
(This is the first post of several on this topic.) Here we go again with a discussion about the rightness or wrongness…
The Key Question Still Remains Unanswered: Rev. Wilken’s Response to President Kieschnick’s Memo is Now Posted on the Issues, Etc. Website
There are some new posts on the Issues, Etc. website that will interest you. There is an audio Web Extra of Pastor Wilken’s…
President Kieschnick Releases Statement on the Trademark Issue; He Pleads Innocent to a Charge No One has Made (by Pastor Rossow)
Here is a memo issued moments ago from President Kieschnick. Take a moment and read through it and I will provide a few…
Changes to Your Website – Search Box and “Related Articles” Features Added for Your Convenience
Two items have been added to the Brothers of John the Steadfast site that we wanted to call your attention to. In the…
The Moving Target: The North Dakota and Southern Illinois Blue Ribbon Presentations Transcribed
We all owe a debt of gratitude to Randy Bosch, who has prepared a current text version of the Blue Ribbon Task Force…
Ash Wednesday reflection, by Mollie
I have a brief entry in an Ash Wednesday symposium over at National Review Online, in case you are interested.
A Little Liturgical Victory, by Pastor Rossow
Sometimes it’s the little things that can mean so much. We had a little girl in kindergarten become ill this morning. Her mother…
The Sin of the Synod Board of Directors, by Pr. Rossow
This Ash Wednesday in the year of our Lord 2009 would be a great opportunity for President Kieschnick, Vice President Dinkelman and the…
Calvinism, Modern American Evangelicalism, and Lutheranism: The Role of Reason in Calvinism, by Bethany Tanis
(Editor’s Note: Bethany Tanis has authored many great comments on the BJS website, particularly concerning Calvinism and so we asked her to do…
Task Force Proposals and Treatise 55
This paper was originally published on the Wittenberg Trail by Rev. Scott Hojnacki; we at BJS thought our readership would like to review…
ANNOUNCING: THE FOURTH ANNUAL THEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE AND PLENARY SESSION OF THE AUGUSTANA MINISTERIUM
(The Augustana Ministerium is one of many confessional groups that reports regularly here on the Brothers of John the Steadfast website. For a…
Report from the Southern Illinois District (SID) Convention: A Model for Other Districts, by Pr. Rossow
We interviewed Pastor Michael Kumm of Trinity Lutheran Church – Millstadt, Illinois, this evening to get a fresh word from the SID convention…
The Blue Ribbon Task Farce Comes to SID, by Pr. Charles Henrickson
(Note: While many of us are upset about the treatment of Todd and Jeffâ„¢, and rightly so, we need to connect the dots…
Who Said Conservatives Aren’t Creative? Check Out this YouTube in Support of Issues
We thank Pastor David Gallas for passing this along to us this afternoon. Even the Beatles are getting into the act of defending…
Oh, you mean that legal threat!
President Kieschnick continues to claim that he is “not aware of any …threat of any lawsuit against Rev. Todd Wilken or Jeff Schwarz.”…
The True Comfort of Steadfast Fathers, by Jon Townsend
(Editor’s Note: Jon writes our “I Desire Mercy not Sarcasm…” column but there is no sarcasm in this post. I thought it would…
Latest ELCA Revisionist Opinion on Sexuality Rejected by Matt Harrison, by Pr. Rossow
It has been called to our attention that Matt Harrison, who some have touted for the presidency of the LCMS in 2010, has…
Petition has 1000 signatories and it’s not yet up 24 hours! Here are Some Choice Comments Like “Leave My Daddy Alone”
The petition to ask the LCMS Board of Directors to back off from their threats of legal action against Issues, Etc. radio show…
Voice Your Opinion Against the Threatened Legal Action – Sign the New Petition
Our apologetics columnist Scott Diekmann has organized an online petition and posted the link on his blog Stand Firm. Click here to sign…
Kieschnick shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this establishment (Mollie)
So we have some minor updates on the issue of legal threats made against Issues, Etc. Apparently a gazillion people have been emailing…
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One of the reasons we have been able to become a real “go to place” for Lutheran News is because of our members….