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Joshua Nelson - Reflections on the Convention Additional commentary to follow in the coming weeks...

  altarandhearth.com " My goal is to reprint a selection of wonderful articles, poems, and more from old Lutheran church magazines and other sources that are now in the public domain but are still locked away in PDF scans, and make them more readily available today on a nice website with topical tagging and the ability to browse by source, author, or year. The focus will especially be on Christian life, family, vocation, and courtship and marriage. The Lutheran church and the Synodical Conference of a century ago was gifted with many faithful pastors, men like Carl Manthey-Zorn, Hans Manthey Zorn, Walter A. Maier, and many others, who spoke with boldness and faithfulness as they saw the sins and dangers facing America and the Church, and their voices are still needed just as much today if not more so. God grant that the church today might learn from their bold witness and still speak with the same faithfulness to the pure teachings of Holy Scripture, no matter what the culture aro...

A guest post... you, too, can submit a guest post to layman@nihilrule.com Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and WELS Teaching Standards   Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) has made a wide beachhead in the WELS, from high school (e.g. Wisconsin Lutheran High School delivers it “at each grade level”) to elementary schools, and even in Early Childhood Education . What is driving this campaign, in a documentary sense? What rule or mission statement has set the WELS on a seemingly-inevitable journey into SEL? The answer appears to be WELS Teaching Standard Two:     In particular, Standard Two states, "The teacher understands how students learn and develop and provides instruction that supports their spiritual, intellectual, physical, social, and emotional growth." This would strongly imply that WELS schools must provide “instruction that supports [students’] … social, and emotional growth” as a matter of conformity to the Teaching Standard. From this perspective, the...

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