Concordia University professor suspended
after he wrote article criticizing school
as 'woke'

The parents of Students should pull their children out of school if this Professor is terminated. They send their children to this college for a reason. Because they have strong beliefs. They pay a pretty penny to send their children there. There are lots of other Colleges in WI, but my guess is those parents don't want their children indoctrinated by the WOKE Professors who teach there. Not only should the Parents be front and center in this Fight, so should the Alumni who support the School with their Dollars. I'm a Lutheran who went to a Lutheran Grade School for eight years. Their teachings have followed me through my life. Something else that bothers me about firing this professor. WHY is it ALWAYS a Black Group of Students who are Offended by what the White Professor says? Why do THEY have so much power over the President of the School?

The Lutheran Synod has been WOKE for decades. I went to college at a Lutheran school. The head of the Religion Department would deny the thesis of any student intent on ministry unless they parroted his hardcore Marxist beliefs. This was 40 years ago. My friends heading to ministry either transfered, in their senior year, elsewhere, or pandered to the ass just to get out and get on with it. The professor is going to need God's grace to get through this, no matter what happens.

If your faith is based on using correct words that fit the current world dictum, you are secular

I just called this university because of my personal feelings on this situation and they are not taking phone calls. They will provide you a link to where you can comment but they will not connect you to a person or a voicemail. I also saw the name "Rev. Dr. John Wille" and I am not impressed with him. I understand diversity and all of what it stands for but "Wokeism" comes on the tail end of Black Lives Matter which involved violence. God created all people but that doesn't mean one race is favored over the other.

You don't publicly criticize your employer. He would have gotten the same in any business. Academics are not immune.

You can't spread 'mis-information', especially about your employer, and expect to keep your job! The phrase, "The truth shall set you free", is proven in this case. He's now free to find another job.

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is the last bastion of vigorous conservative Lutheran scholarship.(Smaller Lutheran bodies are too insular to be influential.) On the other hand, Lutheran News---the source of this report---is the Alex Jones of Lutheranism. Thus, there may be more to this story.

Lutheranism founded by a Jewish hating nutjob

Free speech is dead, especially at the Brainwashing Centers that pretend to be Universities.

Wow! The man who unlocked the mystery of Law and Gospel and stood against the church and state against penalty of death reduced to a Jew Hating nut job! There is idiocy everywhere! We don’t worship Luther! We worship Jesus Christ and have direct access to him without a Pope to tell us what to believe! Sola Scriptural!!! Martin deserves better! Read him before condemning him!

There goes the First Amendment and Free Speech. Aren't Universities the places where ideas are debated not censored? We need another '60s Free Speech Movement!

When I graduated from Concordia College in St Paul in 76, it was still chiefly an institution to prepare people for work in the church. It's unrecognizable now. Church work preparation is only a minor concern. The college brags about its many diverse majors. Many of the profs are not Lutheran. You almost have to do a word search in the schools quarterly magazine to find references of God. They have truly lost their first Love, and get absolutely no support from this summa cum laude grad. Missouri Synod has a long, noteworthy history of outstanding spiritual education, but unless these higher institutions are checked, it will erode from top down.

#8~ Like every mortal, Martin Luther was “a flawed man,” a sinner. (“Let him who is without sin...be the first to throw a stone...” (John 8:7) He made “regrettable (and uncharacteristic) negative statements” but he was not a “rabid anti-Semite.” In his prologue to Romans, he “states that Paul teaches ‘the Jews are all sinners’” but goes on to explain that the “entire human race is under the same condemnation.” His statements “in the context of biblical commentary can be made to look bad when applied to Jews only, without mentioning that these negative statements also apply to humanity as a whole. ... Luther saw Jewish unbelief as human unbelief, and applied John 3:36 to everyone, not only Jews.” He considered the Old Testament to be the Word of God and he had a deep respect for the Jewish men of God in the Old Testament. He stated “that the Jews of the Old Testament were honored and chosen by God above all other nations...” Martin Luther “attempted to contradict the teachings of the medieval rabbis and to show them from Scripture that Jesus is the Messiah.” Several baptized Jews were “friends and correspondents—his complaint was not against the Jewish bloodline but against medieval Jewish religion.” His “theological debate with Judaism about the correct interpretation of the Old Testament was definitely legitimate, even necessary.” During Martin Luther’s time, “a peaceful coexistence of different religions in one society seemed to be inconceivable. Therefore he summoned the rulers to put an end to this by expelling the Jews from Germany, as it had already happened in the countries of Western Europe.” “In one of Luther’s early writings he freed the Jews, so to speak, from the accusation of deicide, which in the 1500s was an enormous act, not matched by the Vatican until 1963.” Ultimately, Martin Luther’s good words and works are reminders of God’s grace, mercy and might on behalf of everyone—including his and our treasured Jewish neighbors and friends.