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The Rt. Rev. Stephen Bouman Metropolitan New York Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Dear Bishop: These lines are in response to the request to read and comment upon the correspondence between you and Pr. Gregory Fryer. I think it will be appropriate to address my observations more directly to you, and copy Pr. Fryer. First, I hope you will allow me to say how impressed I am with your theological seriousness, which one does not always find among mainline Protestant bishops. Nor does one encounter many pastors who would like Pr. Fryer be able to sustain such a theological...