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.

We require our presidents to be preachers. I think it is a helpful way to evaluate a contender for the office of president to see how he handles the Word of God in the pulpit.

The altar had been removed from the chancel and put into a corner with a tarp over it. I saw this at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Palm Springs, California, an LCMS congregation that had adopted Church Growth methods.