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Organized 1927 by perhaps ca. 30/40 pastors and teachers and some congs. suspended from membership in the Ev. Luth. Joint Syn. of Wisconsin* and Other States mainly because they supported the hist. and exegetical emphasis in Wauwatosa* theol. The conference is not organized as a syn. It suffered a rupture 1964. In 1972 it had 7 congs. Since 1928 it pub. the periodical Faith-Life to perpetuate the specific emphasis of Luth. theol. for which its mems. stood. WJH