1. J. Aderman, a founder of Church and Change, published an awful article about the Ten Commandments. If anyone can make sense of his glorified children's sermon, let me know. Don't worry - he has a whole series up his sleeve. I wonder who arranged that.
2. Frosty Bivens, Fuller student, has another article.
3. James Mattek has an article. Don Patterson is on his board, so that is reason enough to be suspicious. Another reason - Ted Hartwig is Mattek's father-in-law and the official heresiarch of WELS. One WELS member told me that Wisconsin Lutheran Child and Family Services is central to Church and Change. I won't know for sure until Patterson officially denies it.
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Mattek is as "Church and Change" as you can get, at least in mentality, if not in membership. (I do not know if he is a member and CaC or if he participates.) However, he did not last long at Trinity in Watertown. Many members were not happy with the innovations he introduced in church structure and other areas. While now "working" in Milwaukee, he maintains his pricy Victoria estate in Watertown and commutes.
In accepting the call to Wisconsin Lutheran Child and Family Service, Mattek made it known that he was making the move because Gurgel wanted him there. Gurgel, of course, was the patsy in all things, with Mueller and Kelm running the show, as they had done with Mischke.
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GJ - The FIC editor is so bad that simply having an article in the magazine raises suspicions that the author is a founding member of Church and Chicanery. Look at the roster of FIC authors over the years: Wayne Mueller, David Valleskey, Paul Calvin Kelm, Peter Pan-denominational, James Mattek, Frosty Bivens, and Jim Aderman hisself. That is just a sample.
