Statement by LCMS President A. L. Barry on the signing of Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

The theology and practices of the Lutheran Church are laid out beside those of Catholic and Protestant churches.

Charles Porterfield Krauth theses on the Galesburg Declaration on Pulpit and Altar Fellowship.

C. F. W. Walther supports the use of the title for the church, defending it as a one-word statement of confession and definition of doctrinal position.

Includes documents, links, and the e-zine DayStar Arising. Missouri Synod members joined by others, including ELCA, to change the theology and ecumenical practice of the LCMS.

Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod comparisons with other Lutheran and Christian bodies and non-Christian groups in theology and practice.

Translation of a Franz Pieper essay from 1889 addressing membership in bodies considered right-teaching and of a mixed confession.

Lecture by Dr. Franz A. O. Pieper, that the Word of God must be taught in its truth and purity for a church to claim to be true.

Contra to the second sub-section of section four of the Joint Declaration by certain Lutherans and the Roman Catholics, examining also sanctification.

Defense against those in Lutheranism who attack the use of proof texts. Calls also for sensitive harmonizing of apparent discrepancies in Scripture.

Theological and political activism in the Missouri Synod designed to move the LCMS away from what are viewed as narrow interpretations of inter-church and intra-church doctrine and practice.

Negative analysis and comments on the JDDJ by the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Outlines differences between Lutherans and modern Evangelicals or traditional Reformed theology. Includes discussions of Law and Gospel and the fallen nature of mankind.

Explores the teachings descending from Luther and Arminius, contrasting the former as objective and the latter as subjective, with special emphasis on how the differences affect worship.

Essay by Dr. Edward Kettner showing major doctrinal differences between the Lutheran Church-Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Includes discussion relevant to other synods and bodies.

Discussion on Lutheranism's relationship with other parts of western Christendom.

A site for the promotion of the principles of Lutheran theology as expressed by C.F.W. Walther, a founder of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

The Rev. Matthew Rusert coins a term for many in the bureaucratic offices of the church from pharisee and parasite. He complains that self-sacrifice has been replaced by self-service.

Valparaiso University professor and DayStar member writes on Christian freedom, a review of "A Statement of Scriptural and Confessional Principles," freedom for ministry, and commentary on Augsburg Confession Article VII.

Pastor Gregory L. Jackson, Ph.D., examines the relationship between the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod and Pastor Herman Otten's Christian News.

The Rev. Kent Heimbigner argues that true, Biblical theology is true, Lutheran theology and must be proclaimed, taught, and defended as such.

A nationwide network of confessional, evangelical Lutherans begun in the ELCA, organized for renewal in the Word alongside or outside the ELCA and the LCMS.