It is a good thing that Pres Harrison has now taken a public stand against the infiltration of Wokism / Social Justice / Marxism at CUWAA. However, his letter is addressed to the Board and is actually more a matter of recommendations than an announcement of a change in university or board policy. After all, he is not the President of the University or of its Board, so that he could ensure that his welcome words would be put into practice here and now. His passing mention of my name (misspelled, with no indication of concern for CUW's treatment of a divinely-called pastor with rather credible academic credentials) does not address what you and the Steadfast 6000 are rightly and righteously concerned with, namely, the fruit of repentance on the part of Concordia University.

CUWAA is still ignoring this Petition, isn't it? In my forthcoming article in The Federalist, “Can Academic Freedom Live Again at My Christian University?” I write this: "Concordia’s attack on academic freedom has been publicly denounced in letters from the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA) and from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). So have The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and The Federalist.

"Stubborn as sin, closemouthed as a grave, our administration and regents have not responded. Nor have they responded to 6000 pastors and laity online or to the scores of students on campus who have petitioned them to respect academic freedom and reinstate me. “The faculty as a whole has also been deathly silent about this widely reported transgression against academic freedom.

There’s also been no statement on academic freedom from the church authorities in the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) responsible for safeguarding the rights of church workers and pastors such as me. There’s not been a whisper about the national scandal of CUW’s frontal assault on academic freedom, as far as I can tell, from the faculties of other universities of the LCMS. No rattlin’ bones."

Our hope rests, as always, in our Lord and in His Word – and in the confessional resolve of the thousands of pastors and laity of goodwill who stand firm in these latter days.

Rev Gregory P Schulz, DMin, PhD