Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, or the principle that style and substance are related and feed into one another, doesn’t need to be proven. It is axiomatic. It is self-evident. There are incongruities that are not a matter simple of cultural diversity.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s presiding bishop offered a take on the Dobbs decision in which the Bible is not quoted a single time, but rather their social statement on abortion is many times. Eaton is unable to call those with child, women, but rather “pregnant persons”.

We have all watched in horror as our American education system has degenerated. It’s not just over the past few years, but has been a slide that goes back well beyond the births of our grandfathers. And this hits home for us Lutherans, as education has been front and center for us since the Reformation itself.