CN's IN HOUSE TRAINING AT MISSOURIAN

CN’s IN HOUSE TRAINING AT MISSOURIAN
Christian News, Vol. 49, No. 6, February 7, 2011

While the editor never attended any school of journalism, the editor did get valuable “in house” training at the Missourian Publishers, the publishers of the Washington Missourian. This newspaper may have won more awards in many categories than any other newspaper in Missouri. The Missourian has been publishing CN ever since its first few mimeographed issues. At times it has also printed such Lutheran papers as The Lutheran Witness, the St. Louis Lutheran, and The Worldwide Evangelist.

Missourian Publisher and Editor James Miller, who died in 1989 entered the Missouri Hall of Journalism in its first class together with Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Mr. Miller and the editor were good friends. They had many talks on numerous subjects when both arrived at the Missourian around 5:30 a.m. each day CN went to press current Missourian Editor Bill Miller wrote in “A Man of Courage, Discipline” in the February 12, 2003 Missourian: “The Missourian is marking an anniversary this month. Christian News is marking the same anniversary. It has been 40 years of a printing and friendship partnership.” The Missourian Editor, a former president of the Missouri Press Association, wrote that the CN editor “is the most disciplined person this writer has ever met.” When the editor had the closing prayer at a banquet of the Missouri Press Association he concluded by asking all the writers to sing America-the Beautiful “Why Christian News,” speech the CN editor presented to a meeting of Lutheran Editors and Publishers at Concordia Publishing House at the invitation of the editor of ELCA’s Lutheran, who was president of the group that year, concluded: “WHY CHRISTIAN NEWS? If you Lutheran journalists on the staffs of official Lutheran publications continue to support abortion or remain silent about this tremendous sin, the Lutherans surely need an independent publication in which warns that abortion is sinful and which exposes the fact that thousands of unborn infants are being killed in ‘Lutheran’ hospitals.” The LCMS’s Concordia Publishing House even published a book by a member of the Lutheran Witness staff supporting abortion. The editor’s entire speech on “Why Christian News” presented at CPH is in The Christian News Encyclopedia, pp. 457-468. “Stop CPH from Publishing Pro-Abortion Book” is on page 11 of The Christian News Encyclopedia.