Bruce Wietzke’s essay traces the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod’s (WELS) fellowship relations from 1963 to the early 1980s, grounded in the synod’s doctrinal principles on church fellowship. Beginning with the ...

V.J. Weyland’s essay, The History of the Controversy Between Wisconsin and Missouri on the Doctrine of the Church (1964), traces the theological and historical roots of the division between the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran ...

Third Synodical Report of the Canada District of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1882. Translated by Jon Bare, May 6, 2005.

David L. Carlovsky presents a detailed layman’s perspective on the rise and fall of the Federation for Authentic Lutheranism (FAL), a small confessional Lutheran body formed in 1971 by congregations disillusioned with the ...

Frederick Casmer’s essay analyzes the Lutheran Churches of the Reformation (LCR), tracing its historical and doctrinal roots from the Orthodox Lutheran Conference (OLC) and the State of the Church movement within the ...

Daniel Burgess’s essay presents a detailed biography of Johann Friedrich Buenger, a pivotal yet often overlooked founder of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Born in 1810 in Saxony, Buenger was shaped by a lineage of ...

Paul R. White’s God’s Tidings of Grace: A Congregational History of the 30 Years of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Waupun, WI (1996) recounts the remarkable growth of a congregation that began in 1966 despite initial ...

Tom Westra’s essay, Missouri’s New Direction: 1962 and 1973 (1985), analyzes two pivotal Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) conventions that marked dramatic shifts in doctrine and practice. The 1962 Cleveland convention ...

A Brief Summary of Events Surrounding the Resignation of Professor Reim.

Otto Willkomm’s biography of George Stoeckhardt (1842–1913), translated by Thomas R. Ehnert, presents a rich portrait of the influential German-American Lutheran theologian. Tracing Stoeckhardt’s ancestry, education, and ...