A parish bulletin announced that WELS is definitely selling The Love Shack. I hope they preserve, as a sacred relic, the divider that Ron Roth hid behind when Slick Brenner came to see him.
Ichabodians will recall my post about the WELS headquarters being sold, long ago, which was countered by an angry--albeit anonymous--rebuttal.
Similar responses have come from my reporting that Mary Lou College will be divided up by Willowcreek's Liberal College and the Watertown campus. They probably want to keep the "Martin Luther" title, for the sake of irony. No school does more for Methodobapticostal religion than MLC. The school will need a nickname.
Luther-ex would be good, because that name would capture the spirit of the school (ex-Lutheran). It would also remind people that WELS is really the womb of Seminex, with Watertown's Jungkuntz as the honored leader and martyr of that movement.
Jungkuntz later upgraded his status to proto-ELCA, decrying the loss of status of teachers, since his father had been an honored and respected parochial school teacher.
Martin Marty, another apostate, issued a similar jeremiad about the loss of respect for teachers.
Returning to the subject, The Love Shack needed selling while it still had some residual value. Good luck with MLC. That $8 million cathedral will overwhelm a State of Minnesota prison.
