In This Issue
Adiaphora in Reverse – Burnell F. Eckardt Jr.
The Missouri Synod’s Lacking Judiciary – David H. Petersen
Why Rubrics? (Continued) – Mark P. Braden
Rolling Away the Stone – Karl F. Fabrizius
Extraordinary Essay:
The Donkey and Tiger Revisited – Larry L. Beane II
Ocular Aphorisms – Fritz the Penguin
With District Convention season largely behind us, and with our 2026 LCMS National Convention looming ahead, those who weary of our internal disputes might find some historical perspective from Ramsay MacMullen’s Voting About God in Early Church Councils (2006). MacMullen (1928-2022) served as a history professor at Yale. The American Historical Association awarded him for his great contributions to scholarship and called him “the greatest historian of the Roman Empire alive today." His special areas of interest involved the social history of the Roman world, in particular the transition from paganism to Christianity.