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‘A Chaste and Decent Life’: CTCR updates 1981 report
At its December 2022 meeting, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) unanimously approved A Chaste and Decent Life: An Update to Human Sexuality...
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Behr joins LCMS Communications
The Rev. Kevin D. Robson (left), LCMS chief mission officer, congratulates Mike Behr following Behr’s installation as executive director of LCMS Communications on March 24 in St. Louis. (LCMS/Erik M....
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Synod offers grants to support displaced Ukrainians
Sergiu Trifa (bottom left), the son of the Rev. Sorin-Horia Trifa, a Romanian pastor who works with The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, snaps a a selfie with Ukrainian refugees in Romania in 2022. Feb....
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‘Too joyous not to share’: News from ‘Set Apart to Serve’
The Rev. Dr. James Baneck (standing), executive director of the LCMS Office of Pastoral Education, speaks to attendees of the Set Apart to Serve pilot program launch held Feb. 28–March 1 in St. Louis...
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New evangelism module addresses witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses
Every One His Witness® (E1HW) is The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) resource for equipping Lutherans to share the Gospel with the people they encounter in their everyday lives. Since the launch...
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Galchutt and Frese installed in St. Louis
The Rev. Dr. R. Lee Hagan (left), president of the LCMS Missouri District, installs the Rev. Dan Galchutt as executive director of the LCMS Office of National Mission during a Service of Installation...
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Youth take part in leadership training
Participants in the March 2023 LCMS YouthLead training converse on the grounds of the Pallottine Renewal Center in St. Louis. (LCMS/Erik M. Lunsford) Each spring, Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS)...
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Marks of the church: May ‘LW’
The church — that beautiful spotless Bride of Christ — sometimes struggles to be seen underneath the division, false teaching and sinful human behavior that plague her. This reality can leave the...
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Obituary: Dr. Ralph Reinke, former president of Concordia Publishing House...
Reinke Dr. Ralph Reinke, former president/CEO of Concordia Publishing House (CPH) and president of Concordia University, Nebraska (CUNE), Seward, Neb., died on April 27. He was 95. Reinke was born in...
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Campus clips: Concordias add space, staff
The Concordia University, Nebraska (CUNE) Borland Center for Music and Theatre was named after university supporters Michael and Caryn Borland. (CUNE) Borland Center for Music and Theatre This fall,...
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From the mission field: Christ-centered education in Guatemala
Students at Cristo el Salvador Lutheran School in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, have fun during fitness time on Feb. 9. (LCMS/Justin Logston) LCMS mission area facilitator Rev. Herb Burch and LCMS...
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LCMS pastors gather in Iowa state capital
LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison (seated in the first chair, right side of the table) joins other LCMS leaders and pastors at in prayer a gathering of LCMS leaders and legislators at the...
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LCMS presidential election: Candidate statements, Q&A
The 2023 candidates for Synod president are, from left to right, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, the Rev. Dr. Patrick T. Ferry, the Rev. Richard L. Snow, the Rev. Peter K. Lange and the Rev. Benjamin...
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The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) Council of Presidents (COP) met April 22–27. As is typical for the April meeting, the group gathered, in turn, at both seminaries (first in Fort Wayne and then...
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CTCR appoints Lehenbauer to fourth term
Lehenbauer The LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) met April 13–14 in St. Louis. Among other business, the CTCR: Voted unanimously to reappoint the Rev. Dr. Joel D. Lehenbauer to...
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18,000 Lutherans SHINE! in Missouri and Illinois
Seventh-grade students from Immanuel Lutheran School in Perryville, Mo., picked up trash in the city’s downtown area on April 17 during the LCMS Missouri District’s SHINE! servant event. (LCMS/Erik M....
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Walking away: Concordia University Texas holds to ‘ill-advised course’
By Cheryl Magness In 2022, the Concordia University Texas (CTX), Austin, Texas, Board of Regents (BOR) amended CTX’s governance documents, changing, among other things, the manner by which CTX regents...
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‘We preach Christ crucified’: Convention Bible study
“We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor. 1:23–24). In...
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Synod celebrates missionaries entering, returning from field
LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison (center) chats with retiring missionaries, from left, Dr. Martin and Marie Dicke and Kathy and Dennis Fangmann following Matins on May 5 at the LCMS...
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Seminary students receive first calls, assignments
Jean-Enock Bérus, a Cross-cultural Ministry Center student, receives his call as associate pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Los Angeles, from the Rev. Dr. Glenn Nielsen, director of Placement at...
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