What follows has more information, in a tighter package, than you’ll hear about Lutherans in many US religion overviews--so let's shoehorn it into my "1000 words or less" series although it slightly overshoots. Knowing more about Lutherans could matter in various ways, including that if you care about Midwestern swing voters or why Minneapolis mobilized against ICE, it might help you.

Earlier I discussed a reporter who asked for abut a sound-bite about “religion” in the south— and how this led to “True and Useful...

Before I began my previous post, I imagined an introduction to set up a lightly edited version of some notes I prepared for a reporter....