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In this book, Professor Schulz performs a critical dissection of an educational institution infected by a disease. Whether called"social justice" or "diversity, equity, and inclusion," or labeled by its opponents as "woke Marxism," the result is the same: thedisease corrupts the institutional host by denying the basic dignity of all human beings. To be sure, such a malevolent theory stands in contrast to basic Christian teachings on equality. But an institution, such as Concordia, that embraces such a theory risks profound legal consequence. As the United States Supreme Court affirmed in the summer of 2023, American law demands equal treatment of all citizens, especially in the educational setting, where race should never be a factor. Educational institutions-even private institutions like Concordia-that impose DEI or "affirmative action" policies upon a student body or faculty violate federal law, risk losing federal funding, and face the prospect of punitive damages in federal court. Higher educational institutions would do well to carefully consider not only moral and Christian teachings, but also thelegal consequences of engaging in the "sordid business" of "divvying us up by race," as the Supreme Court has warned.What is at stake is not simply the prevalent educational ideology, policy, and terminology, but the minds and hearts of students, administrators, and teachers and their adherence to the Word of God, to Holy Scripture, and ultimately the justification of faith through Christ alone, all in the name of church. This is the battle of our time. In this book, Schulz is sounding the certain, clarion call of the trumpet. The church of Christ needs to prepare for battle in these latter days. We had best pay heed and have a care.

This book is now the first English translation of Walther's "The Formula of Concord - Core and Highlights" and Walther's "The Doctrine of Election in Questions and Answers." As the 500th anniversary of the Reformation (October 31, 2017) approaches may these writings by C.F.W. Walther prove helpful in the formation of a 21st Century Formula of Concord which will reaffirm all the doctrines of the Book of Concord of 1580 and also speak to the issues of our day, historical criticism of the Bible, evolution, homosexuality, abortion, etc.

The story had to be told, the story of a large, confessional church body gradually, almost imperceptibly but seemingly irrevocably, losing its evangelical and confessional character and identity. But then, contrary to all expectations and historical precedent, a reversal of a trend which has dominated modern church history! The lay people and rank and file clergy of the Missouri Synod take a stand. They elect new leaders with a mandate to turn the direction of their synod back to the old ways, to the evangelical orthodoxy they had learned and known so well. They support an investigation of the doctrine of the largest and at the time most prestigious seminary of their synod. They study the issues confronting their church, they review their doctrinal position; and in convention assembled they take the bold unprecedented step of condemning the doctrine taught at that very seminary which was founded by and flourished under the greatest theological leaders the synod had ever known. The majority of the faculty members denounce the action of their church, and at what seems like a propitious time they refuse en masse to carry out their call to teach in the church. Students by the hundreds follow their professors into what was called an exile, but was really more a sort of captivity, led by the prestige and persuasions of their teachers and by the incredibly great pressure of their peers. And for the most part both faculty and students are still lost to the church, lost not because their friends and former brethren have not tried to retrieve them, but because they reject their synod, not merely its leaders and some of its actions, but also its theology. The scars inflicted on their church by their departure are deep, and they will last beyond the lives of any of us.

In this book Pastor Otten includes many articles from many sources over many years. His pro-marriage and pro-family stance is clear and uncompromising. His conservatism is ecumenical in the best sense of the word as he provides a wide variety of materials from Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Protestant sources. A Handbook of Christian Matrimony is a valuable resource for Christians of all ages.

Missing Letters to Lutheran Pastors, Hermann Sasse letters and articles by Hermann Sasse, not included in the several volumes of Herman Sasses Letters to Lutheran Pastors already published by the official church press. He is regarded by many as the greatest Lutheran theologian of the 20th Century. Missing Letters will show how he was a big supporter of Christian News.

This book includes articles which have appeared about the life and theology of Martin Luther King,Jr.and Dietrich Bonhoeffer from 1963-2011. Some insist that King and Bonhoeffer were Christian theologians, others maintain they denied such doctrines as Christ's resurrection. The editor concudes King and Bonhoeffer rejected historic Christianity.