LCMS president’s re-election
While I was gone: Rev. Matthew Harrison, a confessional theologian with a heart, was re-elected president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. By a landslide of 2/3 of the vote. You LCMSers, does...
View ArticleLCMS president and other church bodies
Mathew Block, the communications director of the Lutheran Church Canada who writes for the First Things blog, praises the re-election of Matt Harrison to the presidency of the Lutheran Church Missouri...
View ArticleThis week’s LCMS convention
This is the season when churches go out to convention. The denomination that I grew up in, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), threw out all barriers against homosexuality, in addition to...
View ArticleLCMS convention post mortem
The convention of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is over. There were no big controversies. Virtually all of the resolutions passed, overwhelmingly, and those that didn’t were defeated...
View ArticleAnd now LINOS
In the political world, you will hear talk of RINOs, Republican In Name Only. LCMS President Matt Harrison, an accomplished translator, posts his rendition of a letter by the Nazi-battling German...
View ArticleJ. Gresham Machen on the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
J. Gresham Machen was one of the 20th century’s leading Reformed theologians, a Princeton faculty member who battled the rise of liberal theology. Rod Rosenbladt sent me a copy of an article that Dr....
View ArticleOpen questions
Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, posted a passage from the Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod (1932) regarding “Open Questions.” It...
View ArticleWhat the LCMS believes about the Bible
We blogged about the Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the LCMS. President Harrison has now posted an excerpt from the Statement of Biblical and Confessional Principles, passed by...
View ArticleEvangelizing the condemned Nazis
Last year almost to the day we blogged about Rev. Henry Gerecke, the LCMS military chaplain who was pressed into service as the Protestant chaplain at Nuremberg, charged with ministering to the Nazi...
View ArticleWhat’s the difference between pastors and laypeople?
Rev. Adam Roe, in his series on vocation at Mission: Work, observes that Philip Melanchthon, author of the Augsburg Confession and other key texts in the Book of Concord, was a layman. Pastor Roe uses...
View ArticleRemoving a heterodox pastor
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is getting criticized for expelling a pastor and professor for publicly rejecting what the church believes. But Aaron D. Wolf of Chronicles Magazine praises the LCMS...
View ArticleRacially friendly denominations may surprise you
A sociologist tested what denominations were most open to new people from different races. His team sent e-mails purportedly from whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians to different churches, asking...
View ArticleReformation website
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has put together a web site in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, which will take place in 2017. (So this year it’s the 498th anniversary.)...
View ArticleLCMS dissolves relationship with Boy Scouts
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has formally dissolved its Memorandum of Understanding with the Boy Scouts of America. As of now, congregations may still sponsor troops, though a task force will...
View ArticleWhat members of the LCMS actually believe
That Pew Religious Landscape study we blogged about last month now has denominational breakdowns. This includes information about demographics, political beliefs, religious beliefs, and moral beliefs....
View ArticleTop Lutheran stories of 2015
So what were the biggest stories or most important developments in confessional Lutheranism for 2015? I have come up with 6, which I give after the jump. We really need 10. Can we come up with 4...
View ArticleSudanese Anglicans to become Lutheran?
The Anglican Church of South Sudan, a church body of some 1 million members that broke from the Episcopal Church of Sudan over global Anglicanism’s liberal theology, discovered Luther’s Small Catechism...
View ArticleLCMS congregation will go before the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case from an LCMS congregation. Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Missouri, was denied a state grant to improve its school’s playground, in the name of the...
View ArticleLutherans and Anglicans together
While liberal Lutherans and liberal Episcopalians have gone the way of mainline Protestantism in its anything-goes ecumenism, it is a different story with church bodies that still hold to their...
View ArticleMatt Harrison re-elected President of LCMS
Rev. Matthew Harrison was re-elected today for his third term as president of the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod. This means the leadership of the LCMS remains in confessional, conservative, orthodox,...
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