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(Why groups like the ACELC aren’t helpful: Part Three) So let’s get to the point.  I am going to make a couple presumptions here from my reading of the ACELC, its documents and stated goals.  If I have misunderstood or misrepresented those goals, I will gladly receive correction. As I read the stated intents of [...]

In my last post on the topic, I posited that the multiplication of statements has not historically been helpful in the Missouri.  I would be delighted to be corrected, but I am hard pressed to find one example in our LCMS history that would point to an external group (which I will explain in a [...]

This was the first real day of the convention, at least in terms of conducting business.  My first impression of the day was LOOOONG.  I got there at 7:45 a.m., and with an hour and a half for lunch, didn’t leave until 6 p.m.  But it wasn’t really the time that made it long. What [...]

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It has been some time since I was really involved in synodical leadership.  The last time I attended a convention was six years ago, and while I am blessed to serve on the South Wisconsin District Board of Directors, my involvement in our church body at large has been minimal since my illness several years [...]

This will be my fourth synodical convention I have attended, and the second as a delegate.  One of the questions which always seems to surface in a major way is the all-important question: WHAT TO WEAR?  For laity, the answer is simple: business casual.  Being neither laity nor a businessman, I’m not entirely sure I know what [...]