LCMS DP Wille graduated from Mequon.
Al Barry vicared in WELS.
Mark Jeske vicared in WELS and graduated from Mequon.
I added Brothers of John the Steadfast
to the blog list on the left. That blog seems to have the latest LCMS news on it.
The writers do not like Kieschnick's ChurchGrowthism.
I was surprised they had a misleading section on Pietism. It is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, which is Midwestern for "lame." The section equates Pietism with not having fun and anti-Pietism with promoting liquor and tobacco. Pietism is the leading cause of Lutheran misfortunes in America. Few Lutherans seem to understand that Pietism is behind ChurchGrowthism, the Shrinkers' furious opposition to the creeds, confessions, liturgy, and sound doctrine.
Strangely enough, the Sausage Factory in Mequon has a similar fetish about proving itself anti-Pietist. They do that by extolling excess, which says more about their latent Pietism than their orthodoxy. I recall one of Larry Olson's disciples raising a beer as a "witness against the Pietists." A better witness might be a repudiation of the Church Growth Movement, a bridge too far for many.
