[Redleg Duke]

I held on as long as I could in the ELCA, as a life-long ALC member. Finall, a year ago September, I realized that I was a stranger in a strange land, a land not of my comfort or beliefs. Had there been any chance of changing my congregation, I would have stayed, but there are too many who just put their heads down and plod on, trying to imagine that the present hasn't happened.

The transition from the ELCA to the LCMS was a home-coming, not a home-leaving.

[lightman]

The transition from the ELCA to the LCMS was a home-coming, not a home-leaving.

Excellent...years ago I was told, by a now sainted Pastor "don't run from, run to." Sage advice in matgters great and small.

Three weeks ago Concordia publishing sent me a complimentary copy of the new LCMS hymnal. It is marvelous: It contains the Athanasian Creed, the Small Catechcism, and there is no shadow of an attempt to call God anything other than "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit". The invitatory to Morning Prayer still says "O come, let us worship Him." My first reaction: "Now there is a REAL hymnal".