Edited sentence: "The Seminex Empire Strikes Back," warned the grim subtitle of an article in a conservative synod group's newsletter, its authors claiming that a failure to "learn the lessons" of Seminex meant that the synod was "bound to reap the consequences of walking the path toward the ELCA," which they alleged "continues to spiral downward" through more liberal social and theological stances.As recently as 2004, the Seminex battle continued to be addressed by the more conservative camp within the LCMS