u/Krauge

I’m an Orthodox now, but I was a White Horse Inn type Calvinist from about 2009-2016. I listened to hundreds of hours of Lutheran material, especially Issues Etc., and heard dozens of Lutheran clergy mentioned, in addition to attending a Lutheran Church for a year. Always “Pastor Charlie” or “Pastor Schultz”. Never once heard “Father Mike”, “Father Weedon”.

I’ve been out of that world for a decade now, but Over the last few years, I’ve seen some, mostly conservative/LCMS Lutherans on Twitter referring to “Fr. X”, for instance, I’m asking this now because there’s an advertisement for a conference responding to Orthodoxy that former Orthodox priest and now Lutheran minister Joshua Schooping is going to be speaking at, and multiple Lutherans, including Jordan Cooper, from whom I learned a lot, referred to him as “Fr. Schooping.” I’ve seen it over the last few years, but finally had to ask.

Is this a new trend, or is it an anomaly confined to online, or something else? Thanks.

My priest has told me outright that I’m going to be taking a much more active role in teaching the catechumens, and we’re going to start trying to have a more uniform curriculum than the catch-as -catch-can. So, as we’re working on drawing up a curriculum over the next couple of years, are there any topics that weren’t covered when you went through catechesis a that you wish had been. Either doctrinal, or practical as regards life in the Church?