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The Episcopalians and the Syn Conference Lutherans
are enjoying the same feast.
"He who dances with the Spirit of This Age
will be a widower in the Age To Come."

VirtueOnline - News - Exclusives - The Invisible Hand Is Writing On the Episcopal Church Wall: "American author Walter Russell Mead, a leading foreign policy expert, has written a piece for the American Interest in which he declares that an invisible hand has been writing on the nation's wall of late, and the message is scaring the markets. "The markets should be scared; there is real trouble afoot, and the world's political and economic leaders are terrifyingly out of their depth," he writes.

According to Mead, the message being sent to the markets, the kings and rulers of this earth, the Davoisie and the bankers, the economic sages and the lords of finance by the invisible hand that shapes us like a potter's wheel is this:

MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN, "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting." Now your punishment begins.

"The thin rhetoric of a backward looking president, the obstreperous negativism of an opposition better at rejecting what it hates than building or even conceiving what it needs, the lotus-eating educational formation that cuts us off from our past, and the incessant noise of a superficial pop culture: none of this is worthy of America at its best and none of it will help us now."

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ELCA presiding bishop says building trust is key work of this church - News Releases - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

ELCA presiding bishop says building trust is key work of this church - News Releases - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: " For the ELCA, inviting Sayyid Syeed from the Islamic Society of North America served as a "powerful witness in a culture and world where religious differences so often breed cultures of distrust," Hanson said.

"Brett, you were not invited -
on purpose."

The presiding bishop also highlighted the strengthening of relationship between the ELCA and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, which has its roots in conversations among leaders of both churches for the past five years. This dialogue culminated in a festive, meaningful joint worship service and summit with members of both churches "proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ, living, reconciling and setting us free," said Hanson."

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"A Teacher Affects Eternity; He Can Never Tell Where His Influence Stops.” - Henry Brooks Adams

Bruce Johnson (l.), George Small (c.), and Jim Krohn
were part of the Garfield Gashouse Gang,
denounced by Mr. McAllister at John Deere Junior High.

I was talking to George Small, one of my more hilarious friends from Garfield and John Deere. I asked, "Have you recovered from the Panama Canal?"

On Facebook, someone just posted the newspaper article where George and others were working on a mock-up of the Panama Canal.

George said, "Recovered? That is why I became an engineer. Your mother had us create this model of the Panama Canal and she explained everything, how the gates and locks and everything else worked. It was tactile experience. I told myself - this is what I want to do. And I became an engineer. And later, I got to see it myself. It was exactly the way we were taught and worked just as your mother told us. It was fantastic."

Robert Millman, Michael Rothweiler,
George Small, and the late Terry Carlson worked on the model
in this Moline Dispatch article.

Then George brought up my mother's ring with the rock embedded in it. She reversed it in her hand and used it to clonk students who were not behaving. "I remember your mother's ring."

I said, "My wife wore the ring for the dinner tonight."

George got more excited. "She has it? Where is your wife? Excuse me. I have to go see it."

I walked over in a minute or two. Chris told me that George asked her to clonk him twice on the head. He claimed that one crack in the ring probably came from his head. More than one of her students brought up "the ring" at various times.

George and I, not to mention many others, talked about the great teachers we had in the Moline system. They agreed that we got the benefits of a very large private school with the best teachers. They went out of their way to do things for the students, such as taking them on overnight trips.

People often bring up Mary Copeland, Liz Copeland's mother, as one of their favorite teachers. Steph Sundine told a reporter that she got into music through Mrs. Leland, the singing teacher at Garfield with the angelic voice. Many guys were in the Moline Boys Choir - Lawrence Eyre, Bruce Johnson, Greg Keller, John Robeson, and more. Their director, Fred Swanson, had a PhD in music.

Alan Hoffman, our PhD rocket scientist, was encouraged by Mr. Goar at MHS to study physics. That chem-physics class was a riot, in and out of class.

Rex Bullock, whose entire ministry has involved singing, mentioned the musical ability of Mr. Partridge at MHS. There was no field, vocation, or skill that students could not pursue. We had so much available that we took it for granted, but everyone agreed, "We were prepared for college and anything else we wanted to do."

John Robeson, PhD, the late Margaret Carr, and Jim Patronagio
showed off their skills in this Line O Type article.
Mary Parsons, Debbie Mitchell, Rosemary Flatley, Jackie Ozanne,
Dean Parker,and Lawrence Eyre are also mentioned.
The class crushed my science hopes but launched a career in writing song parodies.

Does Born Lutheran Count? How Is Steve Jobs Different from the Syn Conference Leaders? Lutherans Do Not Adopt Fuller Seminary Doctrine. Is John Brug Lutheran?

John Brug, Sausage Factory, endorses women's ordination
in a book lavishly praised by Herman Otten.

AC V has left a new comment on your post "Steve Jobs: Ex-Apple CEO Dies - ABC News":

Was [Lutheran]. Correct.

http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_lutheran.html

I thought someone would correct me about the late Steve Jobs being Lutheran. Acey is arguing the point that one's confession is one's affiliation. Being born Lutheran or even confirmed Lutheran does not count. I agree, although the vast majority of Syn Conference Enthusiasts do not.

Someone who is Lutheran cannot attend Fuller Seminary unless he has given up the Faith. Even worse, his confession is gratifying to the false teachers there, because he is saying, "You have something to teach me." Artful Dodger wanted to know how Notre Dame study was different from Fuller Seminary enrollment. Academic study does not pretend to tell people what to believe or even how to practice one's faith as a pastor or theologian. Seminary study does directs its students into the doctrine and practice represented by that school.

For example, Fuller Seminary endorses women's ordination. If someone speaks against women being in authority over men, a seminary committee will administer discipline--and if necessary--extend the Left Foot of fellowship. Notre Dame was liberal Protestant overall, even among the Roman Catholics, but they could not do anything about my mocking of their love for Tillich and other rascals. The issue was whether I could learn the material and articulate a position. I used my study there for additional study of Roman Catholic doctrine, for writing a book comparing Lutheran doctrine to Catholic and Protestant errors.

Most leaders of the Lutheran Reformation were trained in Medieval Romanism. Luther--gasp!--earned a doctorate from a Roman Catholic school, since that was the only choice at the time. Besides, he was a Roman Catholic monk and priest. What he taught was different from what he learned, and his studies gave him background for distinguishing between sound doctrine and false doctrine. Luther could run circles around the rest in handling Medieval philosophy as a tool to defeat the claims made on the basis of Medieval philosophy.

Fuller Seminary has prospered over the decades by brain-washing denominational leaders into accepting their assumptions, that congregational work is just a matter of statistics and marketing, with no reference to the efficacy of the Word.

Church Growth leaders are lucky to have an IQ in the triple digits. That is why the Lutheran Shrinkers claim to be "conservative" and even "confessional." In the Syn Conference, being born ELS or WELS or LCMS is equal to being orthodox. Wisconsin limits that to being born in Packerland and starting school in a Wisconsin (state and synod) parochial school. They really do not have those anymore. They are "academies" fighting for babies and toddlers to pay deluxe salaries and benefits for their teachers.

So-called "confessional" Lutheran professors like John Brug endorse women's ordination and do nothing about students and relatives basking in Groeschel Enthusiasm. Is Brug a Lutheran? He not by confession - nor does he use his position to correct error. He has a cushy job teaching a few students for a few hours each week.

Steve Jobs died a Lutheran by Syn Conference standards. At least he was honest about his apostasy.

How is Steve Jobs different from John Brug or Frosty Bivens?