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| If they believed this, they would try it, but they do not...and will not. |
bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Someone Has Sent an Insider's Report from the LCMS...":
Greek Orthodox Church in Greece has to implement SMP program, and also took its own KFUO radio off the air--maybe selling it. Notice how it took dire circumstances to get to this point for the Greeks, but the LCMS capitulates even without a full-blown debt crisis. It's obvious that the seminary could have been fully funded and minted enough M Divs (and without huge student loan debts) if Kieschnick and Barry had made the 70 personnel cuts that SP Harrison belated made, among other cuts. But Kieschnick and Barry were glad to screw over students rather than reduce their bloated staffs:
Crisis proves a curse for Greece's Orthodox Church
April 20, 2012|Harry Papachristou
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-20/news/sns-rt-us-greece-churchbre83j1a8-20120420_1_greece-s-orthodox-church-new-priest-soup-kitchens
To cover the shortage of priests, some bishops are permitting laymen to take services. These volunteers receive no state wages and don't wear the characteristic vestments.
For instance, a retired army officer recently started holding mass at Avantas, a village close to the eastern border with Turkey, said Father Irinaios. "Priests in small villages retire or pass away and there is nobody to replace them," he said. "We are going to have a huge problem."
In February, the church briefly took its 23-year-old, cash-strapped radio station off the air, depriving listeners of the daily mix of sermons and cultural programs.
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| Darwin Schauer, five-month wonder - AFTER child rape conviction. Everyone in Missouri is silenced, because his enablers were synod officials. |
