Saturday, October 13, 2007

ELCA-LCMS Feminist Communion Service at Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne


This was copied from LutherQuest (sic) because the original link did not work for me:

Here is an excerpt from the Newsletter of the Society of the Holy Trinity where Pastor David Poedel is a member. The Rev. David Poedel, STS, Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, Phoenix, is an LC-MS pastor:

"Content of the General Retreat 2007
The 2007 general retreat of the Society of the Holy Trinity will be held on the campus of Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Ind., on August 21–23. Chaplain for the retreat will be David Wendel, STS, St. Luke Lutheran Church, Colorado Springs, Colo. Preachers this year are Patrick Rooney, STS, Christ Lutheran Church, York, Pa.; Irma Wolf, STS, Brandon-Split Rock Lutheran Church, Brandon, S.Dak.; Troy Mulvaine, STS, Augustana Lutheran Church, Tonawanda, N.Y.; David Poedel, STS, Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, Phoenix, Ariz. Frank Senn, STS Senior, will give an opening address on "A Society of the Cross." Teaching theologians will be Amy Schifrin, STS, Interim Pastor in the Lower Susquehanna Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), on "Holy, Holy, Holy: God as Preacher," and Dr. Max Johnson, Professor of Liturgy, University of Notre Dame, on "Baptism Under the Sign of the Cross."

This is the tenth anniversary of the Society, and it will be celebrated with a banquet on Wednesday night. The banquet speaker will be Richard Niebanck, STS. Following the banquet address there will be a hymn festival organized around the marks of the Church led by Andrew Senn from the organ console of Kramer Chapel. Rising over 100 feet above the Upper Plaza, Kramer Chapel is the physical and spiritual center of the campus. We will appreciate the opportunity to worship in this impressive facility. It should be a good general retreat".

It certainly sounds like they intended to worship there.

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GJ - The Holy Trinity Society was started by a high church ELCA pastor. Previously there was also a Society of St. James. The members of the Holy Trinity Society end their names with STS (Latin for their society, even if most of them could not read the Gospel of John in Latin).

Oh, I just saw Niebanck's name there. "Danger. Will Robinson. Danger." Niebanck is a friend of Father Neuhaus. Half the participants will pope (join the Church of Rome). The other half will semi-pope (join Eastern Orthodoxy).