Let’s not tinker with Article II, More thoughts on the BRTSFG, by Klemet Preus
In my previous blog I discussed one of the proposed changes to Article II of the LCMS Constitution and the reductionistic nature of…
In my previous blog I discussed one of the proposed changes to Article II of the LCMS Constitution and the reductionistic nature of…
The final report of President Kieschnick’s Blue ribbon task force is on the synod’s web site and the conversation surrounding it has continued….
I believe that the Theses on Worship (PDF), produced by the council of presidents, while a very helpful contribution to our ongoing discussion…
Just as DPs are chosen in a manner which seems proper even though all in the church may not concur, so also our…
Having praised the council of presidents for their recently released “Theses on Worship,” I now offer one suggestion to our esteemed presidents as…
Inasmuch as others have seen fit to comment on the Theses on Worship issued last month by the Council of Presidents, it occurred…
A notice has gone out from the Synod Office for Travel and Meeting that a series of “gatherings” will take place this winter…
Lately the topic of homosexuality has been in the news. The ELCA in convention has approved same sex relationships and homosexual pastors. This…
Now that the districts have given feed-back to the recommendations of President Kieschnick’s “Blue Ribbon Task Force on Synod’s Structure and Governance,” it’s…
At the recent convention of the MNS district I listened carefully to the debate surrounding the question of whether or not a congregation…
Lately I have been musing over the disappointing decision of the MNS district in allowing a congregation called the Alley into the synod…
It seems to me that most ecclesiastical wars are unavoidable. Battles might be avoidable but wars are not. What does this mean? Currently…
The Board of directors of a district has an ethical obligation to apply the will of the synod in its place. This obligation…
It has been suggested that those in the MNS district were pretty dumb to oppose the membership in the synod of a congregation…
Someone said: The MNS BOD resolution to require that mission congregations use LSB to receive funding was an overreach. It galvanized the left…
Apparently some have taken umbrage at my claim that people at the MNS convention “took rather complex issues and turned them into simplistic,…
Can we really claim to have accomplished anything at a convention where we lost every vote? I believe we can. First, we actually…
On June 12 the confessional movement in the MNS district got its lunch handed to it, at least from a purely political perspective….
(These posts are adapted from a presentation Pastor Preus made in Sweden for the North European Luther Academy in 2006 and which was…
(These posts are adapted from a presentation Pastor Preus made in Sweden for the North European Luther Academy in 2006 and which was…
(These posts are adapted from a presentation Pastor Preus made in Sweden for the North European Luther Academy in 2006 and which was…
(These posts are adapted from a presentation Pastor Preus made in Sweden for the North European Luther Academy in 2006 and which was…
(These posts are adapted from a presentation Pastor Preus made in Sweden for the North European Luther Academy in 2006 and which was…
(These posts are adapted from a presentation Pastor Preus made in Sweden for the North European Luther Academy in 2006 and which was…
(These posts are adapted from a presentation Pastor Preus made in Sweden for the North European Luther Academy in 2006 and which was…