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My name is Caleb Keith.

And today I am joined by Bruce Hillman, Scott Keith, and Adam Francisco.

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uh with that logo so go check it out all righty guys so we are doing part three of uh what i didn know would be, but it turns out to be at least a three-part series. We'll see how this goes. But the general idea has been, is there a Lutheran identity crisis? What are the various terms, adjectives that Lutherans can actually organically or, you know,

like readably use to describe themselves?

The last two episodes focused on terms that are sort of, I guess, in contention in Lutheranism today,

which had to do with missional and confessional,

and their intention against each other often, and so we covered some of that.

But at the beginning of the first episode, I mentioned that I also wanted to talk about

some other arguments about identity that I see Lutherans have, which are around the words

evangelical, Protestant, and Catholic.

Various Lutherans will either cling to or sort of run away from these descriptors as well.

And sometimes these are people who agree on basically all of their theology, but these descriptors

rub people the wrong way, sometimes because of context or sometimes because of where we are.

But in reality, at some point in history, Lutherans have had claim to all of these titles,

evangelical, Protestant, and Catholic. So the question is,

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