Recent content by kdm1984

Amazing that nothing has been done yet. I'm glad there are still strong Christian men like Daniel here to defend Biblical truth, honor, and decency, but I've been contemplating whether or not places like CF are really worth continuing to post to. In the rules themselves...

What?! Leftist LGBTQ atheists love to cuss. They do it nonstop on Reddit. They are the absolute opposite of winsome and polite, because it's not in their depraved nature to be kind. It's absolutely astonishing that any self proclaimed conservative Christian today would want to imitate their...

I'm in WELS. I'm one of the younger ones (38) there; I have a 1 1/2 year old son, who is considered part of "Gen Alpha." There are a couple of other families with younger Gen Alpha children there as well. There's also a family with some Gen Z children, college age. I like WELS. Less online...

Are you sad that he was excommunicated? His writings are online for the whole world to see. He's one of those men who loves to complain about feminism in the churches, yet refuses to be a member of a denomination that is actually consistently conservative about women's roles in the church...

I'm a SAHM and my husband is the breadwinner. So many male problems I see on this forum and elsewhere could be alleviated if men simply went to churches and followed Biblical doctrine of how men and women are ideally supposed to function. Then you'd never have to worry about rich powerful...

You say all these things, and yet seem to affirm female pastorship in another thread, and don't seem to want to attend churches where none of these things are issues. I'm in a denomination (WELS) that doesn't affirm female pastorship, and we have none of those problems you listed.

I'm a woman in WELS (the most theologically conservative confessional Lutheran denomination), and I wouldn't attend any churches with female pastors. 1 Timothy 2 indicates that women aren't to teach or exercise authority over men within the specific church setting. It wasn't just a cultural...

I was in LCMS from 2018-2020 and this topic came up a few times. The answers here provided are accurate; there isn't a hard-and-fast rule prohibiting all forms of contraception -- it depends on the type used, and the rationale behind it. I'll add that, if you're married, there is nonetheless...

Yes, this is very accurate on all accounts from all I've seen of conservative Lutheran and Reformed communities over the last decade or so. I'd describe them in the exact same way. I'd add that WELS is the least political of the bunch from what I've seen as well, even though we're the most...

Completely agree. Sadly I see it everywhere these days, even in Christian communities, and was just responding to another thread here where I mentioned how I seldom post online anymore because of how quarrelsome today's online discourse tends to be. I've certainly been guilty myself. I...

Agreed. The pastor at the WELS church I go to is aware, and I've never had issues with it at that church. Much harder is being in generalized Christian communities, particularly online ones (though I can't recall if I've ever had a dispute about it here on CF). There are many reasons I seldom...

My dad and I did use those passages, but many Christians counter-replied with 2 Cor 6 where it talks about being unequally yoked. We believe the unequally yoked context passage didn't apply to marriage, whereas they said 1 Corinthians 7 only applied to people who were in unions before a wife's...

The clergy I knew locally and online were conservative. LCMS has a lot of dissension on social media in general, though, which is a large part of why I left for WELS in 2020 (I also grew up in WELS originally before my parents left, and learned that there was in fact a WELS church in my area...

I have a 15 month old son. Husband is agnostic, and generally leftist. I'm Christian and more conservative, particularly theologically. He and I met when I was going through a period of doubt. My dad was fine with us being together; husband and I married in 2016 after a number of years...

260 replies or more in, and this initial reply strikes me as the most balanced. It's nearly the end of 2022, and I think it's time for me to move on from "Internet forum discussions." There are too many voices to contend with these days -- I'd rather have face to face discussions with my local...