Ad Crucem NewsLCMS 2026 ConventionSite census
Esoterica
The overtures and nominees each got an esoterica article; this page is the census of the census, computed live from the same data files every other page reads, so the numbers below move whenever the corpus does. The site currently serves 2,063 indexed URLs carrying 798,392 words in all: convention documents, the editorial articles, and the Synod’s Handbook.
The Words
- Overture words
- 213,492
- Resolution words
- 77,106
- Omnibus words
- 626
- Report words
- 359,758
- Convention documents
- 650,982
- Article prose
- 42,607
- Handbook prose
- 104,803
- Whole-site total
- 798,392
- Longest report: R62.1 (Christian Decision-Making and the End of Life: An Update and Supplement) at 36,966 words.
- Longest overture: Ov. 9-06 at 9,235 words.
- Longest proposed resolution: Res. 9-11 at 9,631 words; the shortest, Res. 1-15, makes its case in 71.
- 32 of the 106 proposed resolutions carry a Chief Financial Officer cost note under Bylaw 3.1.7 (g).
The Clauses
- WHEREAS clauses
- 2,992
- Resolved clauses
- 1,809
- Resolveds per WHEREAS
- 0.60
The Synod builds its case at length before it acts: every Resolved clause rests on roughly 1.65 WHEREAS clauses, so the corpus weighs its premises nearly two to one against its resolutions.
The Citations
Scripture-shaped citations (chapter and verse)
1,851
- Matt197
- 1 Cor174
- Acts145
- Eph134
- Rom131
Bylaw citations
1,148
- Bylaw 1.2.163
- Bylaw 1.9.1.133
- Bylaw 2.13.132
- Bylaw 3.9.5.2.225
- Bylaw 2.5.223
Superlatives
- The longest title in the corpus belongs to 4-34 at 236characters: “To Direct Offices of National and International Mission to Deny or Revoke Recognized Service Organization Status for Organizations Supporting, Advocating, or Otherwise Promoting LGBTQIA+ Agenda and Lifestyle, and To Amend Bylaws 6.2.3–4”
- The heaviest consolidation is Res. 6-04, which absorbs 20 overtures.
- The omnibus resolutions group 70 overtures for no individual floor action.
- The most prolific overture submitter is Board for National Mission with 23 overtures.
About these numbers: everything on this page is computed at build time from the same JSON the rest of the site renders, so a correction anywhere updates here too. Word counts split on whitespace; the scripture tally matches chapter-and-verse shapes against canonical book abbreviations and is best read as a close floor, since the documents also cite whole chapters and books; bylaw citations match the dotted-decimal form. The whole-site total adds two corpora to the convention documents: the editorial articles, whose typeset bodies are rendered to text and counted with their decks, and the Synod’s Handbook (Constitution, Bylaws, and Articles of Incorporation). Directory, slate, and interface text is not counted, so the figure is a faithful floor for the site’s prose rather than a character-exact total.