Captured! How the church of my childhood fell under the sway of Christian Nationalism.

In a way that reflected this evolving right-wing extremism within the leadership of the LCMS, I became the recipient of a batch of hate memes that originated with the executive director of LCMS' Lutheran Heritage Foundation. This led me to believe that many members in the LCMS may be unaware of the evolution of the denomination, where their donations are going and what the leadership of the LCMS is up to. They have become a petri dish for extremism bereft of any notion of the separation of church and state, a regrettable dystopian state of affairs for the LCMS and our country. [Extracted from the article]