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Rev. Dr. David H. Benke's avatar

This is most helpful, and actually explains more than many other resources the direction and thought-leadership postures in the Missouri Synod subgroup in the last decade. Where does 1517 fit into this mix? I saw a little piece from that group on You Tube, but I think they're more active on other social media.

I suppose a follow-up is whether there are more "liberal" Lutheran inhabitants of the You Tube universe, a la ELCA? There's the Gottesblog again on the conservative side of the aisle, of course, but that's apparently not connected to You Tube.

Anyway, thanks for the research to date!

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Ad Crucem News's avatar

Thanks, Pastor. 1517 is included and appears near the “Theo” cluster with Wolfmueller, Bird, and Cooper.

We didn’t include any ELCA efforts since it is a mainline denomination.

We also confined this to video content designed for YouTube. Unfortunately, there are no reliable analytics to gauge audio podcasts in a similar way because the content is distributed across multiple publishers. We are going to attempt a survey to request the Lutheran podcasters to share their metrics if they might be so generous.

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