You will feel so much better.
Someone wrote to thank this blog for the coverage about Lutheran seminary tuition swindle, especially in the Missouri Synod.
The first part is telling men that there are 600 vacancies in the LCMS. That lie has been spread about for the last 20+ years. I heard it in the 1980s.
The second part is leading students along until their last penny is spent, with the wives working to keep the whole system funded. At the end the seminary denies men a chance for a call.
They also find multiple excuses to keep men from finishing seminary, not allowing a repeat vicarage year, not even allowing a return to the seminary or the other one to make up for alleged deficiencies.
Bruce Church has posted all the research on this. I received the thank-you, but it really belongs to him.
Missourians - your benevolence money is NOT at work. It arrives at the district office and stays there. The statistics are appalling.
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Someone Thanked Ichabod - Really Bruce Church - Fo...":
Thanks for the compliment! Glad it helped. The pages on the seminary costs are here:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2010/10/boomers-got-their-cheap-seminary.html
Spreadsheets are downloadable here. (Don't try to view them on Scribd though due to browser/server rendering errors):
http://www.scribd.com/bruce_church
