The redoubtable Mollie Hemingway asks me to make clear that the pastor I was talking about in a previous post is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), and that members of her denomination, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), look askance at what they consider the ELCA’s unwarranted doctrinal innovations. Ms. M. Z. Hemingway is a passionate Lutheran, with a bit of the feistiness of ol’ Brother Martin himself. I was delighted to learn, on looking into this, that there are still 4.6 million baptized ELCA Lutherans in the U.S., along with 2.4 million in the LCMS and 390,000 in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, not to mention smaller Lutheran groups. (Darn! I won’t be able to sleep tonight because I’ve now got “Ein Feste Burg” stuck in my head.)