Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?
…Walz’s detractors can help themselves. In a now-deleted post, one Twitter user argued: Walz isn’t actually Lutheran, either: his church does not confess the unaltered Confession of Augsburg to be true, and so they are not actually Lutheran, but just a stack of Methodists in a trenchcoat. That user, like Hemingway, appears to be a member of the Missouri Synod, which like the even more conservative Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and sm…
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