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Conservative surge upends Missouri Synod president

Matthew C. Harrison takes the helm

Aug 03, 2010 by Tim Townsend

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has elected the denomination’s director of disaster response as president, a candidate backed by its more conservative members. Matthew Harrison received 54 percent of the vote for the three-year term, defeating three-term incumbent Gerald Kieschnick, who received 45 percent.

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Some Lutherans consider cutting ELCA ties

After the ELCA decision on gay clergy
Nov 03, 2009
A group of Lutherans upset over the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s recent decision to allow qualified noncelibate gays to serve as clergy voted to create a freestanding synod and to study for a year whether to leave the denomination.