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The Lutheran HourThe Lutheran Hour is a U.S. religious radio program heard on over 1,200 stations nationally. First broadcast on October 2, 1930, and functioning as an outreach ministry of the Lutheran Laymen's League and the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), it is the longest-running Christian radio program in the world. Notable speakers in the program's history have included Dr. Walter A. Meier (1930-1950), Dr. Oswald Hoffman (1955-1988), Dr. Dale A. Meyer (1989-2001) and Rev. Ken Klaus (2002- ). In July 2002, the radio program was drawn into the increasingly tense internal politics of the LCMS after its new main speaker, the Rev. Wallace Schulz, suspended LCMS Atlantic District president David Benke. Acting in his capacity as LCMS Second Vice President, Schulz ruled that Benke, by taking part in an inter-faith prayer event at Yankee Stadium to commemorate the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, had engaged in practices that the LCMS condemns as "syncretism" and "unionism." (Benke was later acquitted on appeal.) At the Lutheran Hour, Schulz had been elevated from associate speaker to main speaker just weeks before, and the Lutheran Hour board of governors had requested that he recuse himself from the Benke adjudication to avoid "a conflict of interest." When Schulz nevertheless accepted the Benke case, the board removed him as Lutheran Hour speaker, explaining that the radio program had been "compromised" by Schulz's step into church politics. External link Lutheran Hour Lutheran Hour
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