I was trolling the Net and found The Lutheran article about the first woman ordained, below.
The Lutheran was the name of the independent, conservative magazine among the Muhlenberg Lutherans, long ago. When publications were merged, they took the name of the better magazine rather than the synodical publication.
Two doctrinal issues in the old days were unionism and revivalism. Imagine that. I am so glad WELS, Missouri, and the Little Sect are not tainted by either one today. The conflict brought out the confessional side of that tradition and many fine theologians, still worth reading today, published in support of Luther's doctrine and the Book of Concord.
The WELS Conference of Pussycats realize that their sick, slick, synodical magazine, FICKLE*, is expensive and seldom read. Only 10% of the members receive it. My intuition tells me the FICKLE staff will be lined up against the wall, the next time a budget cuts are announced.
However, Change and Church has insisted on a full employment guarantee from the leaders. No Changer will ever by unemployed for more than ten minutes.
*FIC with a Lutheran subtitle = FICKLE. The content is the same, even though the packaging has changed somewhat.
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Ten percent subscription rate. It's that high?! I thought most everyone got it through their church. In our church, FiCs laid on the table in the narthex but wasn't taken home even when the pastor announced it was there for the taking. That's when the ushers were told to hand it out one per family as they were dismissed from their pews. Glad our community has recycling programs. It's not mailed out to members who aren't there since I think the subscription for the congregation only gets us 50 copies.
I changed the wording to 10% receive it. You are probably right. Few things given in church make it all the way home, so 10% is probably based on how many are distributed at church, not subscriptions.
I was always a magazine subscriber, but now I subscribe to none. I get CN as a gift, but it is a 15 second read most of the time.
When I was associated with The Lutheran, the point was made that magazines are read and kept for a period of time when they arrive at home. Like The Lutheran, FICKLE has betrayed its own members and generates a boring, simpering pile of Enthusiastic gibberish.
In my WELS congregation, the FICKLE is stuffed into our members' pigeonhole type of mailboxes. It might be more appropriate to be used as bird cage liner. The glossy paper is not as absorbent as newsprint. It may be hard to tell if the stench is from the droppings or the content of FICKLE.
Content. I raise quail and doves. Neither can equal the stench of false doctrine, false practice and apathy combined.
I never read FIC.
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