Martin Luther College, WELS, Adds $7.5 Million Chapel To Its Shrinking Campus

Ex Cathedra
Saturday morning, 137 graduates, including two master's graduates and thirty-seven graduates headed to Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, received their hard-earned diplomas.

The language is ambiguous, but it seems that 37 or even 39 graduates are headed to the Sausage Factory for GA, the secret hazing ritual known only to the Wisconsin sect. Yes, innocent ones, GA still goes on. The lies about GA being abandoned or sanitized are part of the Wisconsin ministerial mindset. Tiefel loves GA. "GA, ergo sum."

Let us round off the numbers to 40 for the incoming class, assuming no legs are broken, no teeth knocked out during GA. An incoming class of 40 can yield as few as 20 graduating seniors. Even if no one is arrested during the vicarage year, no one has a military wedding, only 30 are going to graduate.

The Little Nashotah House on the Prairie is only graduating four (4) seniors per year - average for the last five years. Even when supplemented by an expelled grad from Concordia Ft. Wayne, the yield is small.

The Little Sect on the Prairie and its Big Brother WELS have embraced apostasy together, driven out Lutheran pastors, and tip-toed toward school bankruptcy. The Episcoal Church in the US is an example for those who want to follow the latest trends.

MLC had shared its worship area with the auditorium. For some reason, Concordia in St. Louis and MLC were both able to have worship services for many decades before someone noticed the chapel-deficit issue. "We have a chapel-defict!" The "Oh Noes!" and "OMGs!" rose to a crescendo until foundation grants eased their pain.

Martin Luther -- remember him from last week's lesson? -- said in the Middle Ages that they did not need another church building, that people should help the poor instead. I am thinking that the church leaders should ease the pain of confiscatory tuition bills before they build another monument to their egos.

"But we can't!" they claim. "That money is Corban. Mark 7:11. We must use it only for a chapel." That never bothered WELS before when dipping into all their designated funds.