It's encouraging to see the COP generally united with the Seminaries and the Synod President in this matter. My senior research project in college was on the St. Louis Walkout and all that transpired around it. In reading the faculty majority statements in "Faithful to Our Calling, Faithful to Our Lord," I always found it amusing how those professors claimed "confessional subscription" and the Scriptures as inerrant and yet were actually advocating for positions FAR removed from those beliefs. Yet if they were not at variance with Synod's positions, why create their own Seminary without LCMS oversight? The same might be asked of those advocating these new online "seminaries." These efforts strike as "Seminex 2.0" An attempt to subvert LCMS authority while sending out pastors trying to change the doctrine of the church. Seminex claimed they weren't about that, but look what passes for "Lutheran," in the ELCA today. Unfortunately by allowing a handful of District Presidents to certify such graduates for ministry we wound up with a whole generation of "doctrine-lite" pastors out in our congregations. We have to make sure that never happens again.