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Some attemts were made to justify the new chapel at Martin Luther College, New Ulm. Context is everything.

Synodical Pope Gurgel and his gang decided on their own to have MLC take over Northwestern College in Watertown. That was supposed to cost only $8 million. I understood that the price was more like $30 million.

The two colleges were not threatened with closure when this Wild Hair project began. Gurgel's leadership team did not care how much people hated the idea. They bulled it through anyway, even when they lost the ultimate vote on the debacle.

Now, many years and many millions of dollars later, what are the results? Get out the Excel spreadsheets. Oh yes. NWC is no more. Prairie is gone. There is no college dedicated to training pastors. The pastoral and teacher training tracks are combined at New Ulm. How has that worked? Most people think the college will close in a matter of years.

The solution is - build a new chapel for a crumbling educational system.