‘Free to be Faithful’ – Fall 2026 newsletter

The Free to be Faithful^® newsletter offers updates on religious liberty issues that impact the rights of Christians to live faithfully.

In the Fall 2026 issue, read about:

• An amicus brief the LCMS has joined, filed against the state of Colorado for barring the access of Denver Catholic schools to “universal” state benefits meant for all Colorado schools, public and private;

• A final appeal filed by Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen, a Lutheran who was convicted in March for expressing biblical teachings on marriage and sexual ethics in a 2004 booklet;

• The fight for freedom of conscience for doctors in New York, who are being required to begin the assisted suicide bureaucratic process for patients who request the measure, without any exception made for physicians morally opposed to such a request;

• The concerns caused by the “streamlining” of religious faith codes in the military, which now identify religious affiliations as disparate as the LCMS, ELCA, WELS and ELS simply as “Lutheran”; and

• The retirement of the Rev. Dr. Gregory Seltz as executive director of the Lutheran Center for Religious Liberty.