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April 2025

April 25, 2025

The Faith-Religion Cycle

Researchers note that while church affiliation has plummeted, religious beliefs have not. They conclude that...

March 2025

March 27, 2025

Why People Are Converting to Lutheranism

What the Lutheran Religious Life Survey found as to why people come into the Lutheran...

March 26, 2025

Surprising Data on Lutheran Converts

A study has found that "confessional" Lutheran congregations (traditional, liturgical, doctrinal) attract more converts (both...

March 18, 2025

LCMS Churchgoers Are More Conservative Than We Thought

The RLS, which cast doubt on the orthodoxy of half of the members of the...

March 12, 2025

The LCMS: Not as Conservative as We Think We are

The new Religious Landscape Study includes a wealth of data on denominations, including the Lutheran...

March 04, 2025

How an LCMS Tech Titan Lost His Faith & Is Getting It Back

[A free post.] Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, grew up in the Lutheran Church...

February 2025

February 14, 2025

MAGA Targeting Lutherans?

Gen. Flynn is accusing "Lutherans" of money laundering and Elon Musk is siccing the DOGEs...

November 2024

November 22, 2024

Is the LCMS Evangelical or Mainline Protestant?

An article on the difference between evangelical and mainline Protestants made me wonder where the...

October 2024

October 24, 2024

From Discordia to Concordia

This year marks the 50th anniversary of when the advocates of theological liberalism walked out...

September 2024

September 26, 2024

Confessions of an Ex-Mainline Protestant

I grew up in mainline Protestantism and experienced it from the inside. I witnessed its...

September 03, 2024

Praise for the LCMS Victory Over Liberal Theology

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the split in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod...

August 2024

August 13, 2024

A Lutheran Vice-President?

Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, is a Lutheran. This will doubtless...

May 2024

May 17, 2024

LCMS Members’ Commitment to the Means of Grace

A defining tenet of Lutheranism is the belief that the Word of God, Baptism, and...

May 16, 2024

December 2021

December 20, 2021

The “Ecosystem” of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

The "institutional church" is derided by just about everybody. But few people have encountered a...

August 2021

August 27, 2021

When the Government Told Churches What Language to Speak

One example of governments using the force of law to regulate the internal practices of...

June 2021

June 01, 2021

The pastor who leads a church body in fellowship with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod...

August 2020

August 03, 2020

The New Lutheran Witness Blog

The Lutheran Witness, the magazine of the LCMS, has a new internet presence, including a...

May 2020

May 15, 2020

Weird Christianity

Some Christians, particularly younger adults, are reacting against secularism and contemporary Christianity by embracing "anti-modern"...

May 07, 2020

Church Decline Isn’t Reversed by Contemporary Music & Worship Styles

According to the new American Enterprise study of American religion, the decline in church membership and...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

Discovering Lutheranism

The word about Lutheranism is getting around.

September 2019

September 12, 2019

CPH at 150: The New Catechism + Explanations

Concordia Publishing House celebrated its 150th Anniversary yesterday. Though CPH now offers some 10,000 products,...

June 2019

June 14, 2019

The LCMS Doctrinal Study of Social Media

The Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is...

November 2018

November 16, 2018

Applying the Two Kingdoms on Capitol Hill

At the Rural and Small Town Ministries conference I attended, I got to hear from...

November 13, 2018

Where the Action Is in Ministry

As I keep harping on in this blog, the white working class in rural small...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

LCMS Missionary Battling Witch-Burnings in New Guinea

An LCMS missionary is getting attention for battling "sanguma" in Papua New Guinea, the practice...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

The LCMS Adult Conversion Rate & Other Surprising Statistics

Per capita, the LCMS has one convert for every 44 adult members. That is a...

November 27, 2017

An LCMS Murder

A man identified as the "youth pastor" of Grace Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Chester, Virginia, shot...

October 2017

October 18, 2017

The New Edition of Luther’s Small Catechism

Concordia Publishing House has just released Luther's Small Catechism with Explanation, 2017 Edition. This updates the...