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The LCMS won’t be able to work out its differences in the dark

Dave Farquhar Christianity February 12, 20131990s, Jesus Christ, journalism, Kirkwood, lcms, malware, Matthew Harrison, New York, new york times, Post Dispatch, survivors, ZIP

I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard a journalism professor say, “Don’t ever do something you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the New York Times.”

It’s worse today. In the 1990s, the news cycle was hours long. Today, with three major cable news channels and the Internet, the news cycle is minutes long, and marching toward real-time.

That’s the problem with Dr. Matthew Harrison’s hope, reported in the Post-Dispatch, to handle the LCMS’s Sandy Hook Vigil controversy “[Internally,] well out of the public spotlight.”
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I do not agree with my church president’s forced apology over Newtown, Conn.

Dave Farquhar Christianity February 10, 2013July 23, 2017computer security, Jerry Kieschnick, Jesus Christ, journalism, lcms, Matthew Harrison, Missouri, Post Dispatch, st. louis

This morning, I read something in the St. Louis-Post Dispatch that disturbed me greatly. I didn’t say anything about it until I had a chance to confirm with my pastor that it is true.

In the aftermath of the shooting in Newtown, Conn., Rev. Rob Morris, pastor of Christ the King Lutheran Church, spoke at an interfaith service designed to give comfort to the community. the Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison, the president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, of which I am a member and a former employee, forced Rev. Morris to apologize. (I will refer to him as Dr. Harrison throughout because he has earned that degree, not because I agree with what he says. It is possible to acknowledge rank while expressing disagreement.)