Summer vacation is over...

Apologies for the abrupt stand-down in May. There was a memorial at the WELS Synod Convention requesting that the Conference of Presidents write a pastoral brief on Critical Theory and Social Justice, and I was politely asked - in the interest of advancing the memorial - to 'lay low' for a few months. I gladly obliged. 

The memorial was debated on the floor late Wednesday afternoon and then tabled until Thursday morning at the convention. On Thursday morning the memorial was retracted and replaced by a revision with softened language. The revised version was approved, requesting the CoP to create a pastoral brief discussing justice and critical theories.

The LCMS convention occurred the same week on the opposite shore of Lake Michigan. There were a number of overtures offered regarding critical theory and social justice (overtures 11-04 thorough 11-09 in the workbook). None of them made it out of committee. 

So maybe we're not just 'Woke in the WELS'. Maybe we're woke across American Lutheranism. But there are enough things to talk about in our little synod to keep a twice-a-week blogger like me busy for quite some time...