Synod VP Joel Voss preached at the Reformation service at St. Paul, German Village. He could not be found after the service, because he was watching the Packers play on TV in another part of the building.
Don't worry WELSians, that will only lift him higher in the eyes of your members.
Joel was famous for never reading the books sent to the official conference book reviewer for NPH. Everyone knew it. He stood up each time and laughed as he showed the book covers to the audience.
Don't worry WELSians, that will only lift him higher in the eyes of your members.
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grumpy has left a new comment on your post "Wisconsin Synod Piety - Stained Glass Window":
Are you mocking the dead?
Isn't this the same Voss that was killed in a car accident?
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GJ - He appears to be alive in this photo from his current blog.
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Are you mocking the dead?
Isn't this the same Voss that was killed in a car accident?
Grumpy doesn't know how many Vosses there are in the WELS.
You're right to compare the WELS piety (and orthodoxy) to a stained glass window. They just didn't have any conservative competitors in the Midwest for the last hundred years. Before that, the anti-UOJ Iowa and Ohio synods gave them a run for their money, but then those synods turned liberal by the 1930s, but it had nothing to do with their anti-UOJ stance as ELS President John Moldstad wrote in his book a few years ago.
Out dated and really rather lame. If anything the Pack are Rome's team from Vince on down.
But wait, UOJ Enthusiasm which is Pietism has something in common with Liberalism. That is how Church and Change eventually becomes.
LPC
Careful, you are having fun with cheese head piety.
Here's a picture of Voss giving the sermon:
http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/0712/nfl.fans.week17/images/Lions-Packers-Football.jpg
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