Pueri puellae erunt (boys will be girls - video).
Puellae pueri erunt (girls will be boys - pastors).
The Wisconsin Synod should stop wasting its money on Wisconsin Lutheran College and Martin Luther College. Both schools should be cut loose from all funding and synodical affiliation, with the few good faculty and students moved to Bethany in Mankato.
I am not the biggest fan of Bethany, but the other two make it look like a bastion of orthodoxy in comparison. Perhaps Bethany would not want to be tainted with an influx of WELSians.
Reposting the Withdrawn MLC Video
WLC and MLC think the gay video is just great. In fact, the entire WELS school system is supporting the video with a fan page on Facebook. At this moment, the page has 1,059 fans, drawn from the WELS schools, prep and area Lutheran high schools included. Others join, so they can see how hip the Wisconsin Synod is.
The fan page has linked the Martin Luther College video and the original Fire Island Pines version.
Neither school has shown the slightest interest in discipline, so WELS is supposed to be straight on the outside and gay on the inside. Are the WELS leaders uncomfortable with Martin Luther College on the title of the video and the fan page? Parents? The college will not budge, so why not drop the school entirely?
ELCA is more honest - and falling apart at the seems. That is, seems everyone is heading out the door, as fast as possible. What makes people think WELS is different? ELCA tiptoed around the tulips for some time, but finally came down on the predestined side of apostasy.
Brassier Than the Anglicans
The Episcopal Church began with some illegal women's ordinations - the women were legal but the ordinations not. Consternation! Abomination! They studied it for a long time and found it a blessing, but women could not be bishops. Oh no. That changed with their first woman Suffragen (assistant) Bishop. Purdy soon they had women bishops. Finally The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori's mannish hands grasped the crosier with righteous wrath, vowing to make her church into HerChurch, a place for equal opportunity for everyone except straight white males.
WELS is brassier than the Episcopal Church because the synod has not bothered to ordain women. No need. They created Women Staff Ministers (no objections)and a College of Ministry (a few bleats from the Little Sect). MLC is the College of Ministry and Ballet Dancing.
They encouraged these Women Staff Ministers to consecrate Holy Communion and distribute them to the shut-ins. The Lord knows the WELS pastors were too busy planning growth to visit their own members with Holy Communion.
The ELS squeaked and WELS graciously imposed a moratorium - WELS-Latin for "We will get this going later. Wink. Wink."
But lo, that was not enough. The Latte Church set up their own Lady Pastor who "administers the Means of Grace" under the watchful eye of the Circuit Pussycat and Doctrinal Pussycat. She is not even certified as Woman Staff Minister. She was hired behind the back of the local clergy, which was unbrotherly, if not unsisterly.
But lo, even that was not enough. Mary Lou College made the Lady Pastor a special guest their
Issues Define ELCA
Most would say that three or more issues define ELCA:
1. Women serving as pastors.
2. Homosexuality.
3. Unionism with Rome and with the Reformed.
Both colleges meet these criteria as ELCA schools. Put them up on eBay.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Close the Two WELS Colleges: They Are Seminex Rebo...":
If you ever wondered what Israel was like when the prophets had to hide in caves, looking at that Facebook page with its members gives you an idea. Even the religious class was hopelessly mired in immorality.
I thought the morality of the WELS schools was bad when I went there, but apparently it has continued its slide so WELS members are only slightly better than mainstream, which isn't very good in this day and age. At least they aren't rappin' and hiphopping while using foul language and misogynistic slurs.
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GJ - They proudly list their Lutheran schools. The worst German adjective is "shameless" and these fans hardly know what that means.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Close the Two WELS Colleges: They Are Seminex Rebo...":
Yes, I see that under their mug shots and names, they even list their WELS and Concordia schools. I'm not sure why a future Lutheran educator or pastor would even be interested in his bit of pop culture with its relative morality.
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GJ - Seminex became the official seminary of the Metropolitan Community Churches, whose founder wrote The Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay. In breaking with the LCMS, Seminex also began training women pastors.
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mjleyrer has left a new comment on your post "Close the Two WELS Colleges: They Are Seminex Rebo...":
Good thing your little blog has so much weight on what the synod does. I bet they will cut all funding tomorrow because of your genius blog post.
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GJ = Mr. Leyrer - I think your comments alone would be enough to make them pull the plugs. Thanks again for confirming everyone's suspicions about the quality of a WELS education.
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mjleyrer has left a new comment on your post "Close the Two WELS Colleges: They Are Seminex Rebo...":
Hey, if I went to a WELS school than maybe you would have a case! Hmmm open mouth insert foot appropriate? I think so.
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GJ - Did I say Mr. Leyrer went to or graduated from a WELS college? I think it is highly unlikely that he never attended a WELS educational institution. His reading comprehension skills are almost at Mequon levels. Really. That low! And his self-esteem (which we used to call conceit) is that high. Mequonisch high.
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mjleyrer has left a new comment on your post "Close the Two WELS Colleges: They Are Seminex Rebo...":
Well, you weren't advocating closing all the WELS schools were you? No, you weren't. Just the colleges. My point still stands. Hey, you almost got out of it though. Keep trying, maybe someday you'll win.
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GJ - I just did. Thanks.
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MLC
Vice President Phil Leyrer and ten MLC students observed and participated in the ministries of Risen Savior, St. Marcus, and The Hope Schools of Milwaukee on our Urban Ministry Field Trip April 20-22.
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Prof. Philip Leyrer
Vice-President for Enrollment Management
leyrerpm@mlc-wels.edu
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Rev. David Valleskey: Rev. Valleskey is a graduate of Michigan Lutheran Seminary, Northwestern College, and Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. He was assigned in 1962 to St. Paul, Livingston, Montana. He accepted a call in 1965 to start a congregation (Apostles Lutheran Church) in San Jose, California. He left San Jose in 1984 upon accepting a call to serve as professor of New Testament and Pastoral Theology, with emphasis in evangelism, at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. He served as vice-president of the Seminary from 1985—1996, and as president from 1996—2004. He continued to teach courses in evangelism and the Pastoral Epistles during his presidency. He retired in 2004 and lives in San Marcos, California, with his wife Janice. In his retirement he is serving as chairman of the Humanitarian Aid Committee of the Board for World Missions. The Valleskeys have three married daughters, all of whom have been or are involved in the WELS teaching ministry. They have ten grandchildren. [Fuller trained - denies it, brags about it]
Prof. Phil Leyrer: Prof. Phil Leyrer is a 1980 graduate of Dr. Martin Luther College. Prof. Leyrer has served on the faculties of Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School and Lakeside Lutheran High School and as the Minister of Discipleship at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Middleton, WI.* In 2000 he came to MLC where he teaches in the English Division and serves in the administration. He has had the privilege of serving on the Evangelism Committee in a previous congregation and on the Western Wisconsin District’s Evangelism Commission.
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| Pastor Randy Hunter |
| Minister of Worship, Kristen Koepsell - MLC Lady Pastor Speaker |
| Minister of Spiritual Growth, David Hochmuth |
| Vicar, Alex Groth |
Prof. Lawrence Olson: Prof. Lawrence Olson was the pastor of Peace Ev. Lutheran Church in Loves Park, IL, from 1983 to 1993. Since that time he has been a professor at Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN, where he directs the Staff Ministry Program. He also directs the Congregational Assistant Program, which trains individuals to serve as assistants in ministry in their own congregations. Other service to the church has included membership on the National Board of Christian Life Resources, the Wisconsin Lutheran College Board of Regents, and the WELS commission on Youth Discipleship. He was a member and chairman of the Western Wisconsin District Commission on Evangelism. In addition, he served as the chairman for several national conventions for the WELS, two dealing with evangelism and one dealing with Sunday School. From 1989 through 1991 he served two-thirds time as a Parish consultant for the WELS Board for Parish Services, a role that he continues to fill on a part-time basis.[Fuller drive-by DMin]
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Brain Washing Day, 2008
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WLC Board of Directors
Mr. Philip Leyrer - New Ulm, Minn.
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They no longer list parish membership on the WLC board - too embarrassing. Three came from the same non-WELS Church Shrinker congregation: CrossWalk in Phoenix. The facts are the same, just hidden from the hoi polloi.
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Apprising.org
EMERGING CHURCH, JAY BAKKER AND OUTLAW PREACHERS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 25, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
Apprising Ministries has been warning you about the Growing Gay Agenda In Evangelicalism; therein you will see heretical theologian Tony Jones, unquestionably a leading spokesman for the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—that’s now morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—speak of “a shift” toward full inclusion of GLBTQ people within evangelicalism.Awhile back in Emerging Church To TransFORM Outlaw Preachers I talked about the EC group TransFORM, a network created by Steve Knight of Emergent Village. As I’ve said before, most all of the familiar names in the EC existential rebellion against the final authority of the Bible are to be found within; and it’s very important for you to realize that the EC has now also embraced a bunch self-described, largely gay-affirming, Outlaw Preachers (OP) who’ve come slithering up all around “pastor” Jay Bakker.
In Meet Outlaw Preachers I brought to your attention that this rather rapscallion bunch of largely biblically illiterate, *cough* group of “preachers” is currently working hard at Turning God’s Grace Into An Idol. OPs include such EC luminaries as Queermergent’s Adele Sakler and self-described “Queer Affirming” ELCA “pastor” Nadia Bolz-Weber, who was recently featured at the EC apostasia-palooza Christianity 21 put on by Jones along with his equally heretical quasi-universalist “pastor” Doug Pagitt.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Close the Two WELS Colleges: They Are Seminex Rebo...":
"ELCA is more honest - and falling apart at the seems...."
"seems"?
Hmmmm.... These are the kind of mistakes for which you crucify others...
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GJ - The previous remark came from Milwaukee or New Ulm. In both cities, college students are reading Ichabod, their lips moving as they try to sound out the words.
I planted that pun just to catch a humorless Shrinker. Notice the second seems. That unites the thought. They probably do not teach this in the WELS colleges, where English is still a first language, and Latin is unknown. Puns can be based on homonyms, words that sound alike but have different meanings. The Old Testament has a number of puns in Hebrew, but I don't want to make this too deep for the college students.
I'm no Oxford, but I admire his plays. He made up more words than anyone else, had a larger vocabulary than John Milton. He also used puns. Some of you know him as Shakespeare, the son of a glove-maker, but that seams unlikely. There I go again.
I do not remember crucifying anyone over bad grammar, atrocious spelling, and hamfisted sentence structure. To the pure, all things are pure. To the illiterate, all things are just doggone confusing.
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KFax said...
- I do not remember crucifying anyone over bad grammar, atrocious spelling, and hamfisted sentence structure. What a funny guy.
KFax
Me and Leah have been working on a project since the last week of school up at MLC, and that's watching all six of the Star Wars movies.
KFax
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About Me
I'm attending UW Whitewater for the Fall 2010 semester, most likely continuing my Education degree, but I wouldn't mind majoring in business either I guess.
