Friday, January 8, 2010

A New Year - A New Identity














http://www.wels.net/news-events/forward-in-christ

It's a new year, and you'll notice some new things in Forward in Christ.

Probably the most obvious change is the new look. We've updated the inside pages as well as the cover with new styles, fonts, and photos. We've also added the synod logo and tagline, "Christ's Love, Our Calling." That message of love—from Christ to us and from us to others—is not new to FIC, but it is one that we will continue to communicate.

A Lutheran voice?


21 comments:

Anonymous said...

That must be hard to take for the Changers at headquarters. " A Lutheran Voice" is on the cover? And the synod logo? And the name? Those are obstacles to growth, according to all the experts who have shrunk the synod.

Anonymous said...

Pres. Schroeder has truly had a confessional impact on the synod. My prayers is that he can continue to root out the reformed Church growthers.

Anonymous said...

Putting the word "Lutheran" on something doesn't make it Lutheran.

Dick Dale

Norman Teigen said...

It is a good thing for a Lutheran synod to identify it's major publication as Lutheran. Have wondered for a few years what the WELS has been up to but I see this as a positive sign.

Norman Teigen, ELS layman, and
official spokesperson for the Evangelical Lutheran Synod

Anonymous said...

Lutheran like ELCA?

Anonymous said...

The positive signs keep coming. WELS has a leader in doctrine and practice. That is good news.

Anonymous said...

It could be good news if the leader wouldn't be pushing his personal agenda in a heavy-handed way. Contact members of the synodical council for more information.

Michael Schottey said...

Anon@11:58

Yes, because Heaven forbid a confessional WELS leader doing despicable things like adding Lutheran to titles or speaking against CG!

Anonymous said...

It's about time we start seeing the word Lutheran on the old Northwestern Lutheran. Now if we could get a few more confessional Lutherans to contribute to it, that WOULD be a step in the right direction!

Anonymous said...

Schroeder is a conservative. Conservatives conserve. Conserving old WELS doesn't do much for me. Until you see articles in "Forward..." and the Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly like the one posted below by Reverend Frey and, more importantly, practice as he advocates, I would reserve judgment on the WELS becoming more than marginally Lutheran.

Dick Dale

Anonymous said...

"My prayers is that he can continue to root out the reformed Church growthers."

Who would they then call to the Seminary?

Mr. Eliminator

Michael Schottey said...

Dick Dale,

I don't think it helps the discussion to make statements about the situation from a cynical (read: not fact based) point of view.

The WELS isn't the Senate with lefties and righties. Although some would say there as been a fracture, the lines do not fall on "liberal" and "conservative" like you pretend.

President Schroeder wants nothing to do with the status quo like you insist.

Anonymous said...

Michael,

Apparently you are not well versed when it comes to the terminology I used. First of all, I was not using the term conservative in the sense you used it, as in contrast to "liberal", a word I did not use.

A conservative in the theological sense, as Lutherans use that term, means precisely how I used it, to conserve the status quo. Schroeder wants to conserve the old WELS (pre-1970's), as I noted, not the "status quo" as you said I said (big difference there). And until one starts finding the kind of article and practice of the nature that was posted here (by Rev. Frey) then you will just have the same old watered down version of Lutheranism, the kind of which the current administration seems to wish to conserve, old WELS.

Dick Dale

PS It is useful to respond to what a person actually writes.

Anonymous said...

I don't put much stock in names and labels these days. Look at what ELCA has done to the good Lutheran name.

Jon said...

While it may be nice to see the word "Lutheran" on the cover, why not also use a photo of actual Lutherans instead of this fake cover photo?

Anonymous said...

Hmmm...what does an actual Lutheran look like?

Anonymous said...

"Hmmm...what does an actual Lutheran look like?"

Though I did not post the statement that led to this question, I'll give it a shot. A Lutheran is the one on his knees, making the sign of the Holy Cross, receiving the sacrificed body and shed blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sins.

Anonymous said...

"Though I did not post the statement that led to this question, I'll give it a shot. A Lutheran is the one on his knees, making the sign of the Holy Cross, receiving the sacrificed body and shed blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sins."

Or it could be a Roman Catholic. That was a dumb statement.

Jon said...

My point was that the cover photo is fake; it's a stock photo anyone can obtain. FIC occasionally publishes real photographs inside the magazine; why must the cover be faked?

Anonymous said...

What was wrong with 'the old WELS' anyway? Pre-70's was pre-church growth/Church and Change, right?

Anonymous said...

Ahhh yes...the good old days. TLH, page 15, women on one side and men on the other.