Neuhaus on TV

Richard John Neuhaus (LCMS, then AELC, then LCA, then ELCA, then Roman Catholic)is on TV talking about his new book, As I Lay Dying, about coming back after almost dying. Mrs. Ichabod said, "That's a rerun from 2002." OK.

Some surprises about his early life:

1. He grew up in Canada, but went to the States for an education.
2. He was kicked out of high school for his behavior and never graduated.
3. He bought a gas station and ran that for a period of time.
4. He attended a Concordia College and graduated without his high school diploma.

He wanted to serve in the inner city and went to St. John's in NYC, soon after ordination. He did not look for an academic career.

Neuhaus did not mention how he and Wilken (now Roman Catholic too) got Otten and Marquart kicked out of the editorship of the student paper at Our Lady of Sorrows Seminary in St. Louis (formerly Concordia).

I met Neuhaus at the Ad Fontes conference in Pennsylvania. We had corresponded quite a bit already. I fed him news about the LCA in Michigan. He spoke with LCA President Crumley at the conference. That was just before Neuhaus became a Catholic. Crumley seemed to be having a problem with that. Crumley knew I had joined WELS even though I had barely met him once. The bigwigs keep track.

Neuhaus spoke against Church Growth at Ad Fontes. Some of the LCA clergy were mouthing all the CG terms, like "user-friendly liturgy."

Neuhaus is a clever man with many talents. I think it is a pity he fell in with the apostates of Missouri and finally with Rome.

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