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Looks Like We Ended Up in the Right Place

Sunday, 4 May, 2008 – 20:56

I (and many others) ask for your prayers right now.
My home congregation, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Millstadt, Illinois, voted this morning in congregational assembly to extend a call to the Rev. Todd Wilken to serve as Assistant Pastor at Trinity.
(I’m speaking about it now because I am a member at Trinity and because Mollie [...]

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Reports of Conflicting Receipt

Saturday, 19 April, 2008 – 07:37

Those who have been reading and (like me) follow many Lutheran blogs know of the news and situations currently transpiring here in St. Louis… and like yesterday’s earthquake, being felt in reverberations in some parts of the country. You also know that I have not spoken to these issues other than a brief article at [...]

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An Edifying Evening Was Had By All

Sunday, 13 April, 2008 – 22:57

I had the blessed opportunity to spend my evening with many brothers and sisters at Emmaus in St. Louis, in a service of Evening Prayer and bratwurst dinner afterwards, to the benefit of and to give thanks to God for the once and (hopefully) future ministry of Rev. Todd Wilken and Jeff Schwartz.
Of the situation [...]

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Silence Is Fatal

Wednesday, 19 March, 2008 – 01:13

At first, I had thought it was merely an Internet rumor, and hoped it had not been true, but it appears that “Issues, Etc.”, one of the most constant and reliable sources of information and discussion for confessional Lutheranism, has been removed from the air, and its staff terminated with no notice and no apparent [...]

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