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In my Sunday Bible class, making our way through Exodus, we came upon God’s instructions to Moses concerning priestly vestments (chapter 28).

Well, I married a keeper. Today is my 29th wedding anniversary, and I told Miz Grace what I was planning on writing. She was delighted and considered it (this article) as a wonderful anniversary present.

After reviewing the complaints about Luther’s Large Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications, President Harrison has concluded that the volume is fine as it is, and requires no changes. It has been put back into distribution.

The Rev. David Ramirez has given a couple of interviews regarding the Large Catechism controversy. He treats it in a straightforward, charitable, and evenhanded way, and explains with clarity what the issues are.

One of my predecessors at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Gretna, Louisiana was the Rev. Adolph P. Wismar (1884-1977) who served my congregation from 1910-1918.

I agree with Dr. Ahlman as to the importance of our synod as the world continues to ravage the church, and as entire confessions within Christendom have become apostate.

The uproar over the annotated Large Catechism shows that while we may be united to a great extent over doctrine, that we agree for the most part in our theology - we are divided over how that doctrine applies in the real world. We are divided over anthropology.

CPH’s streak of publishing great resources has come to a spectacular end, a veritable crash-and-burn.

Lutheranism is arguably the tradition with the strongest hymnody. Many of our finest post-Reformation hymnists were also pastors and/or theologians, great writers and servants of the Word…