He also endorsed Reformed-ELCA communion services.
I recall working with Patsy Leppien on the research for What's Going On Among the Lutherans? I wanted the title to be What's Going Wrong Among the Lutherans, which was more precise and yielded a pronounceable acronym: Wag-Watl.
She did plenty of patient research, turning up odd bits of information, such as the origins of the ALC's support for Lutherans Concerned.
Jim Siefkes was an ALC leader in radicalism, although the ALC had the reputation for being conservative. He was apparently the son or relative of an ALC leader in the past, so he was protected from criticism.
Siefkes got Lutherans Concerned going, so they give a prize in his honor.
One might call it the Righteous Straight award, suggesting that there may be a few good heterosexuals out there.
Stan Olson, former Luther Seminary professor and ALC district president, earned one of the Siefkes awards.
The ALC pastors always bought Lenski, much more often than the liberal LCA pastors. Most of us never heard of Lenski. WELS and Missouri pastors are the most likely buyers of Lenski.
Olson earned a PhD at Yale in New Testament, under some very conservative scholars - Nils Dahl and Abraham Malherbe. I wonder what Lenski, Dahl, and Malherbe would say about their guy.
This could be Jim Siefkes' father.
