“It’s not a done deal,” says Neal Rabe of Washington, Missouri.

Rabe is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; now retired, he worked for a Lutheran insurance company, and even worked for the Synod at one point in his career.…

Martin Luther, by jadedflower

For a decidedly mixed set of viewpoints on the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s sale of classical KFUO-99.1 FM to Joy FM, it’s worth looking at The Brothers of John the Steadfast, where you’ll find an entire rainbow of…

An editorial in the current issue of the St. Louis Jewish Light addresses three current controversies with disapproval: St. Louis University’s cancellation of a talk about “Islamofascism” by David Horowitz, the crucifix hanging in the new downtown Schnuck’s Culinaria store, and…

The story of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s secretive negotiations to sell the region’s lone classical music station, KFUO-99.1 FM (aka “Classic99″) in a sweetheart deal to Joy FM, one of the area’s 11 purveyors of Christian broadcasting, continues to unfold.

Reputable…

Solo spokesperson Kermit Brashear (Lincoln Journal Star photo)

If any member of the news media has any questions at all about the sale of KFUO-99.1 FM to Gateway Creative Broadcasting, the members of the board of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod have…

A note from Bryan: This never got linked to the (preliminary) story I wrote for STLToday.com on Tuesday when the news first broke, and it didn’t get a prominent online spot on Wednesday because it wasn’t new news at that…

Joy FM's new logo: More "Ghostbusters" or Angel of Death in "Prince of Egypt"?

My colleague Tim Townsend, Post-Dispatch religion writer, has a column in today’s paper about the sale - or more correctly, about the purchase - of KFUO-99.1 FM:…

There are groups for all sorts of interests and purposes on Facebook. And, yes, there’s a group for people who want to preserve KFUO-99.1 FM for classical music.

It’s called “Stop the Sale of KFUO Classic 99 in St. Louis!” and any…

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is taking an activist position on the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s sale of the city’s only classical music station, KFUO-99.1 FM to Joy FM, a purveyor of “Christian contemporary” music.

The SLSO sent out an e-blast to…

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra director of communications Adam Crane got a warning from the SLSO’s email administrator: His mailbox is almost full.

Much of that is a direct result of all the mail that’s flooding in response to the SLSO’s e-blast…