Colleges of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Click on the ELCA college below to read about the evident problems and concerns regarding what is happening on these campuses: theologically, politically and socially.

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"I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God’s word becomes corrupt ... I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell."
​- Martin Luther (see here) 

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* ​Augsburg University (College) [in Minneapolis]
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* ​Augustana College (Illinois)
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* ​Augustana University
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* ​Bethany College (Kansas)
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* ​California Lutheran University
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* ​Capital University
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* ​Carthage College
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* ​Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)
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* ​Finlandia University (Closed - 2023)
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* ​Gettysburg College
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* Grand View University
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* ​Gustavus Adolphus College
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* ​Lenoir–Rhyne University
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* Luther College
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* ​Midland University
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* ​Muhlenberg College
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* ​Newberry College
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* ​Pacific Lutheran University
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* ​Roanoke College
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* St. Olaf College
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* ​Susquehanna University
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* ​Texas Lutheran University
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* ​Thiel College
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* ​Wagner College
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* ​Wartburg College
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* Wittenberg University

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Only the Orthodox Will Survive - by Robert Benne

. . . St. Olaf scored an abysmal 5.5 and Valparaiso scored a low 8.5. My “intentional pluralist” college, Roanoke, came in at 2.5. My alma mater, Midland University, which was in my student days a robust Lutheran college, came in at 3. None of the ELCA schools scored more than an 8.5, yet they claim to be “rooted and open”—maybe more open than rooted. . .

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