ELCA NEWS SERVICE July 19, 2007 ELCA Membership Drops 1.6 Percent to 4.8 Million in 2006 07-130-FI/LA* CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Evangelic...

Every event has synod minders. They are the loyalists who show up uninvited to snoop around whenever Lutherans might think on their own. I a...

One reader wonders why Catholicism is so attractive to Lutheran pastors? 1. Poping means joining Rome, even becoming a priest, as Richard Ne...

Orwell's Animal Farm is an allegorical satire of Stalinism, and the book describes other totalitarian regimes as well - the ELS, WELS, E...

I know a number of pastors who managed to overlook a case of incest. A prominent layman got his own daughter pregnant. She was committed to ...

I am not talking about the pastors who spend all their time and energy in politics, playing the game of their Father Below. There are many f...

My favorite ELS Blog went silent since May and now is gone. Only the URL remains: Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come for You? I was tempted to...

The big news today is the Los Angeles clergy abuse case. The current sum to be awarded to victims of homosexual priests will be about $660 m...

We were flying back from North Carolina to Phoenix, during the LCMS vote for synodical president. I composed this parody during the flight, ...

ELCA NEWS SERVICE July 5, 2007 ELCA Committee on Appeals Rules in Atlanta Discipline Case 07-123-JB CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Committee on...

An anonymous person has asked if everything is Church Growth. The same person seems to favor CCM, sometimes called Charismatic Church Musi...

From time to time I order a mocha at Starbuck's (Barnes and Noble) while checking on some new book titles. They used to ask, "Do yo...

Norm Teigen's Ad Hominem Argumentation Norm Teigen, ELS, has decided to leave no thought unpublished. I really thought the ELS confined...

This (I say) it is profitable and necessary always to teach to the young people, to admonish them and to remind them of it, that they may be...

A layman mailed me the Michigan Lutheran Seminary brochure. I found it sad, touching, and disturbing as well. Doubtless the Luther Prep situ...

Thou shalt not covet... Therefore we allow these commandments to remain in their ordinary meaning, that it is commanded, first, that we do n...

One person wisely commented that Reformed doctrine, from Zwingli and Calvin and the Pietists, is more dangerous than Romanism among Lutheran...

All this has been said regarding secret sins. But where the sin is quite public so that the judge and everybody know it, you can without any...

Thou shalt not bear false witness. Next, it extends very much further, if we are to apply it to spiritual jurisdiction or administration; he...

On pages 20 and 21 is the Synod Convention discussion - Pre-Convention Coverage. One can easily infer that MLS closure is a foregone conclu...

The WELS AnswerMan has done it again. I suspect AnswerMan also wrote the letter being answered. The basic content is - We visited an LCMS co...

ELCA NEWS SERVICE July 2, 2007 ELCA to Offer Worship Jubilee 2007 in Chicago, August 3-6 07-119-LL* CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Evangelical ...

Thou shalt not steal. Therefore they are also called swivel-chair robbers, land- and highway-robbers, not pick-locks and sneak-thieves who s...

Now, I speak of this in order that the young may be so guided that they conceive a liking for the married estate, and know that it is a bles...

Thou shalt not commit adultery. Therefore God has also most richly blessed this estate above all others, and, in addition, has bestowed on i...

If you want to know what is going on in the bowels of The Love Shack, 2929 N. Mayfield Road, read Wayne Mueller's blog. Ichabod costs no...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , Dec 25, 2006 by TOM HEINEN Martin Luther wrote the lyrics centuries ago, but the eighth- note rock rhythms t...

WELS President-in-Waiting Wayne Mueller: God Bless Our Decisions Last weekend the Synodical Council found itself in nearly the identical fin...

God must not bless commercialism in His Church, because the money-changers in the Temple always drive out good stewardship. The biggest prob...

Thou shalt not murder. Secondly, under this commandment not only he is guilty who does evil to his neighbor, but he also who can do him goo...