Errr.. Most traditional is the Wisconsin Synod. The Missouri Synod went liberal a little while back. No way EVER the Wisconsin Synod joins up.
And the Wisconsin Synod is different than the Missouri Synod in what way (other than that Ying Yang thing of the W/M/W/M?
Seriously ~ edumacate we heathen folk.
If “went liberal” you mean NOT calling all other Protestant denominations heretical, you may be right...but the LCMS is still VERRRRRRRY CONSERVATIVE (still requiring closed communion, after all) within the evangelical world.
No female clergy and closed communion puts the LCMS still to the far right amidst evangelical Protestants.
I’m sure you’re correct though that Wisconsin Synod is way to the right of that. How far right in religion though, is wrong?