Wisconsin Synod Piety - Stained Glass Window

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.

Bruce Church thinks this is a candid shot of the synod vp.

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AP – Three former Anglican bishops, John Broadhurst, left, Andrew Burnham, second left, and Keith Newton, … 

 

By GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press Gregory Katz, Associated Press – Sat Jan 15, 10:02 am ET

LONDON – Three former Anglican bishops were ordained as Catholic priests Saturday, becoming the first ex-bishops to take advantage of a new Vatican system designed to make it easier for Anglicans to embrace Roman Catholicism.

The crowded ceremony at Westminster Cathedral in London made priests of former bishops Keith Newton, Andrew Burnham and John Broadhurst, Anglicans who had been unhappy with the church's direction.
The three declined to comment after the ordination presided over by the Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Catholic leader in England and Wales.

Nichols called the ordination service a landmark event.

"Many ordinations have take place in this cathedral during the 100 years of its history, but none quite like this," he said. "Today is a unique occasion marking a new step in the life and history of the Catholic Church."
The groundbreaking ceremony was made possible by a 2009 ruling by the Vatican allowing Anglicans worldwide to join the Roman Catholic Church and still adhere to many Anglican traditions.

Vatican officials devised the new policy without consulting Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the global Anglican church.

The new system is designed to entice traditionalist Anglicans opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy, the blessing of same-sex unions and other controversial policies that have caused a deep schism within the church.

Until it was put in place, disaffected Anglicans had joined the Roman Catholic Church primarily on a case-by-case basis.

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"Its Articles, Homilies, and Liturgy have been a great bulwark of Protestantism; and yet, seemingly, out of the very stones of that bulwark has been framed, in our day, a bridge on which many have passed over into Rome... It harbors a skepticism which takes infidelity by the hand, and a revised medievalism which longs to throw itself, with tears, on the neck of the Pope and the Patriarch, to beseech them to be gentle and not to make the terms of restored fellowship too difficult."
Charles P. Krauth, The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology, Philadelphia: The United Lutheran Publication House, 1913 (first edition, 1871), p. x.

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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Lutheran Cathedrals Are Also In Trouble":


"For many [cathedrals], trust funds and endowments are all that is sustaining them."

That reminds me of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. With an $80 million endowment and growing, it only has 60-some M. Div students per class, and yet they pay through the nose to go there. Then they have all the non-M.Div. filler GED students (DELTO, etc) who have no business being there. Of course, the deaconesses are all pretty so I can't say anything about them.

Meanwhile, Dean Wenthe is retiring from Ft. Wayne. I guess he thought that making Ft. Wayne as expensive as Yale Seminary was enough of a life achievement, and everything else would just be anticlimactic.