On Fences and Fears

Mary Todd Daystar Free Conference II One Body/One Spirit Mundelein, Illinois 30 October 2000 [© 2000 Mary Todd. All rights reserved. Not to be reprinted without permission of the author.] I will readily admit to you that I am a reluctant keynoter today. I had agreed to be conference chair long before David cornered me about…
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No Stones Will Speak for Me!

Ruth Koch Daystar Free Conference · Mundelein, Illinois · 31 October 2000 Copyright Ruth N. Koch.  Permission to publish in full or in part in any publication requires permission of the author.   I have been asked to address the topic of leadership—both lay and clergy leadership in our church body.  This poem by an…
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LCMS 2000: Advice for an Advisory Synod

Dr. Ralph A. Bohlmann There is a great deal of concern within the LCMS about the proper relationship between the synod and its members. Just a few months ago, the chairman of the synod’s Task Force on National/District Synod Relations (Rev. Eugene Oesch, May 2000 Reporter, p.3) publicly expressed his surprise “at how little some church…
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What’s an Exile to Expect?

Stephen C. Krueger Mundelein, Illinois Feast of the Reformation — 31 October 2000   Introduction I have a seminary diploma which reads, “Concordia Seminary in Exile.” That dates me to a particular few years in the history of the Missouri Synod when those who shaped me considered themselves “in exile,” along with the community of…
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