Posts from May 2025

Federation with Minnesota and Michigan

“We have tendered [this seminary] to the Joint Synod and thereby demonstrated, with our joyful and willing sacrifice, how urgent it is for us to help our fellow believers and further the wonderful work of building God’s kingdom.”—President Philipp von Rohr at the dedication of the new pastoral-training seminary in Wauwatosa in 1893.   In the mid-1800s it seemed as if every state in the growing country had its own Lutheran synod. Founding Pastor Johannes Muehlhaeuser had come from the New…