Men needed for special ministries in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod now may qualify for ordination ... pastor mentoring and on-campus seminary training instead of three years of seminary ...

John H. Tietjen, a seminary president who led a mid-1970s revolt of moderates against fundamentalists in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, and contributed to a three-way merger of Lutheran bodies in ...

The president of the Topeka-based Kansas District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri ... synod officers and members of boards and commissions on Sept. 13 during a service at Concordia Seminary ...