If Your Church Ceased to Exist Tomorrow, Would Anyone Outside Your Congregation Notice? The Importance of Being Present in the Communities That We Seek to Reach

Death Spiral?: With 1,000 Empty LCMS Pulpits & Worsening Gap Between Numbers of Pastoral Retirements & Residential Seminary Graduates, Incumbent LCMS President Rev. Matthew Harrison says “I’m Done Approving SMP Guys” From Certain Congregations

LCMS Pastoral Formation Committee Phoenix Listening Session Lay Participant Expresses Concern About Whether Attendees Were “Heard With Open Hearts & Minds”

For Those Seeking a Better & More Unified Synod, Round 3 of the LCMS Synodical President Voting Could Make That Change Reality, So Vote!

Statistically Tied. Spiritually Surging. Time to Finish It. Rev. Dr. Joel Biermann Surges in LCMS Synodical President Round 2 Voting

Rev. Zach Zehnder Nails It: 5 Reasons Why the Election for LCMS Synodical President is So Close & Headed for a 3rd Round of Voting

Here We Go Again:  Some Round 3 LCMS Synodical President Pastoral & Lay Voters Report Not Receiving Email Notifications from Synod

LCMS Pastor Rev. Steve Streufert Shares Recollections of His Time at Concordia University Ann Arbor (CUAA) & His Perspective on the Decline of Pre-Seminary Students Graduating from CUAA in Recent Years

The Myth of Pure Doctrine: Why the Two Sides in the LCMS Need Each Other

The LCMS Synodical President Election is Not About Two Men; It’s a Referendum on Which Markers We’ve Decided Define Faithfulness, & We Don’t Agree

The Religious Reversal That Doesn’t Make Sense: The Mystery of the Missing “Nones” That is Driving Data Scientist Ryan Burge Crazy

What Is Shaping the First Call for LCMS Pastors? WELLSPRING Report on Assistant & Associate Pastors Offers Insights, What Works Well, What Needs Improvement