November 9-10 at Martin Luther College's Auditorium in New Ulm, MN; first presentation at 10:30 a.m. 11/9
Presentation #1
(10:30 a.m., November 9; reactions follow)"Is there any genuine Lutheranism left in American Lutheranism?" And "Can it be brought to bear?" Mark Braun (Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee) will read an essay by Mark Noll originally entitled, "American Lutherans Yesterday and Today," from Lutherans Today: American Lutheran Identity in the 21st Century, Eerdmans, 2003.
Reactions by John Pless (Concordia, Ft. Wayne), Gaylin Schmeling (Bethany, Mankato)
Presentation #2
(1:30 p.m., November 9; reactions follow)"Lutheranism is catholic and evangelical," by David Scaer (Concordia, Ft. Wayne)
Reactions by Mark Mattes (Grand View College, Des Moines), Mark Schroeder (WELS President)
Presentation #3
(3:30 p.m., November 9; reactions follow)"Lutheranism's Chief Article--Justification by Faith and Its Flipside--Bondage of the Will," by James Nestingen (North American Lutheran Church)
Reactions by Joel Fredrich (Martin Luther College, New Ulm), Scott Murray (LC-MS Vice President)
Presentation #4
(9:00 a.m., November 10--Martin Luther's Birthday!; reactions follow)"Luther's Doctrine of the Word: The Incarnate Word in the Written Word," by John Brug (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon)
Reactions by Steven Paulson (Luther, St. Paul), Dan Metzger (Old Zion Lutheran Church, Philadelphia)
How did that peacock get in the Photoshop of that beautiful bird?
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GJ - I lived in New Ulm for three years. MLC was always kind and gracious to me. They bought some of my books and told me when a library sale was on. I found it amusing that James Tiefel's first cousin, the CLC's Paul Tiefel, was always spewing out stories about how I was slandering WELS. The CLC will be gone sooner than the ELS, happy to be a footnote in history, because most people will say, "The what?"
