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Martin Luther College (WELS) built an $8 million dollar Marvin Schwan Cathedral.
Marvin Schwan grinned on the cover NWL in putting his name on his library at his little college, Wisconsin Lutheran College, which like Brigagoon, appears to be WELS one moment and not the next.
Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne, just completed another project to rival the Great Pyramid.
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, after building the Chapel of the Schwan, continued to add more buildings. At one point they bought up an entire college, next-door to the Clayton campus. I believe they dumped that white elephant, probably for a loss.
The Little Sect on the Prairie has festooned their land-locked campus with buildings on the frozen tundra of Mankato, to honor the frozen food king and his hot-blooded women.
What have we learned? All the Lutheran sects have money to burn for glamorous, expensive buildings, but hardly a penny to reduce student debt.
I am sure the leaders will claim, "We had to spend the designated funds that way." But that was not a problem - when the WELS $8 million disappeared, and Gurgle was spirited out of the country in a pickle barrel.
These big grants are arranged so that the synods apply for something they already want to do. I have not even started on Thrivent pan-Lutheran, pan-denominational funds. Always people hear the cry, "But they forced us to spend the money that way. If we had not gone along with it, someone else would have grabbed the loot."
What did Adam (not a real person, according to the NNIV) say? "Not my fault. That defective woman, whom Thou forcedest upon me, she madest me eat of the apple."
This blog has provided many posts, designed by a very good researcher, on the LCMS forcing enormous tuition costs on students while forcing many of their victims out of the system before they can even get a call. They are left with crippling loans and a useless degree.
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More on student debt:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-student-loan-bankruptcy-20120208,0,1704059.story
