ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Fareed Zakaria apologizes for plagiarism - POLITICO.com.
Suspended by Time and CNN.
Removed from Yale Board, But CPH Rewards Plagiarism
Fareed Zakaria apologizes for plagiarism - POLITICO.com:
Fareed Zakaria apologizes for plagiarism
Time Magazine columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has apologized "unreservedly" to Jill Lepore for plagiarizing her work in The New Yorker.
"Media reporters have pointed out that paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right," Zakaria said in a statement to The Atlantic Wire. "I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers."
Zakaria's column about gun laws for Time's August 20 issue includes a paragraph that is remarkably similar to one Jill Lepore wrote in April for a New Yorker article about the National Rifle Association. (The similarities were first flagged by NRANews.com and first reported by Tim Graham of the conservative watchdog group Newsbusters, who leveled the plagiarism charge.)
From Lepore's New Yorker article:
As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law scholar at U.C.L.A., demonstrates in a remarkably nuanced new book, “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America,” firearms have been regulated in the United States from the start. Laws banning the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, and other states soon followed: Indiana (1820), Tennessee and Virginia (1838), Alabama (1839), and Ohio (1859). Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas explained in 1893, the “mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man.
From Zakaria's Time Magazine column:
Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, documents the actual history in Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. Guns were regulated in the U.S. from the earliest years of the Republic. Laws that banned the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813. Other states soon followed: Indiana in 1820, Tennessee and Virginia in 1838, Alabama in 1839 and Ohio in 1859. Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas (Texas!) explained in 1893, the "mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man."
In its initial statement earlier today, Time Magazine said it "takes any accusation of plagiarism by any of our journalists very seriously, and we will carefully examine the facts before saying anything else on the matter."
UPDATE (4:22 p.m.): A Time Magazine spokesperson emails:
TIME accepts Fareed's apology, but what he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual but original; their views must not only be their own but their words as well. As a result, we are suspending Fareed's column for a month, pending further review.
This post has been updated to include Zakaria's comment.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/fareed-zakaria-plagiarism-new-yorker-time_n_1764954.html
Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria was suspended from both places for a month on Friday after admitting to lifting parts of a story from the New Yorker.
Conservative media watchdog Newsbusters was the first to spot the similarities between a Zakaria piece on gun control and an article by Jill Lepore that appeared in the New Yorker in April.
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The Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A journalist recently accused of plagiarism has resigned from his position on Yale University's governing board to better focus on his work.
The New Haven Register reports (http://bit.ly/OIHJP3) that in a letter to Yale President Richard Levin, Fareed Zakaria said he needed to shed some of his responsibilities as he re-examines his professional life.
Levin thanked Zakaria for his time and service.
Paul McCain published another deceptive, copied post on November 11th -
The citation first read "source" at the bottom of the full article. Now it says Source: Catholic Cyclopedia.
That must be a co-inky-dink, that he changed it so fast. However, that does not spare him from the charge of plagiarism. The post is set up to look like he wrote it, with no indication on the main page that Roman Catholics wrote it for them.
As I wrote many times before, a citation at the end says, "I wrote the entire article, but I used this source as my research."
Here are references provided by the Church of Rome for publishing the article -
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GJ -
That must be a co-inky-dink, that he changed it so fast. However, that does not spare him from the charge of plagiarism. The post is set up to look like he wrote it, with no indication on the main page that Roman Catholics wrote it for them.
As I wrote many times before, a citation at the end says, "I wrote the entire article, but I used this source as my research."
Here are references provided by the Church of Rome for publishing the article -
About this page
APA citation. (1910). St. Martin of Tours. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.Retrieved November 15, 2012 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09732b.htm
MLA citation. "St. Martin of Tours." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 15 Nov. 2012 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09732b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Michael C. Tinkler. In honor of the Societas Sancti Martini Episcopi Turonensis at Emory University.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Caleb To Cascione
I see Black Jack Cascione is up to his tricks again. (Am I correct in this rant?)
Interesting that he never seems to see how UOJ’s residue inertia seems to open the door to let the Church Growth Movement slip in the back door; he still separates the two. I also find it amusing when describing the theologians craft as interpreting scripture on the basis of terms;-- which is great scholarship; but-- only if one includes the terms inclusive in the orthodox Lutheran Faith as guided by proper exegetical hermeneutics such as:
When did Christ absolve the whole world. Is Absolution and Forgiveness a tautologous act at the time of Christ’s Crucifiction? Did the act of absolution occur at the time of Crucifixion or Resurrection? What then is the prescribed path to condemnation? Is every body saved without faith? Is that where subjective justification comes in where one receives faith? How is that process described and detailed in the Lutheran confessions? How are the two justifications bridged? Support your answer in the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions.
Does any of that then diminish the importance of the means of Grace; Baptism where we are given the promise of salvation, the Divine Service where we receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit in Confession/absolution, hearing Gods word, communion with Christ and the forgiveness of sins and the gift of faith and the resulting fruits of that faith.? (When was the last time he actually visited a parishioner?) If we are all saved, even though we do not believe it, then what good is the means of grace where the Holy Spirit works faith? Other terms that Pastor Cascione ought to consider reading? What is faith as defined by Chemnitz. Faith is a work of the Holy Spirit and not of ourselves. (no synergism here)
What is an individual’s assent to faith? How does an individual come to faith in conversion? Black Jack Cascione seems to think that you think that faith is a synergistic work rooted in the decision of man which leans toward the reformed concept of limited atonement. If he thinks that then he ought to re read Dr Jackson’s writings as well as Paul Rydecki ; that is if he has the theological ability of discernment and comprehension.
It seems that man’s assent to faith is as passive as water flowing through a pipe. Mankind cannot turn on the faucet, but he can obstruct its flow; hence the importance of the means of grace through the works of the Holy Spirit and those consequent gifts we receive in the divine service every Sunday.
That is why Lutheran doctrine, theology, a liturgical divine service with the Lords Supper every Sunday is critical to allowing the gifts of the Holy Spirit work every week in a sinners heart which includes all of us; I as Paul states, being the chief sinner of all. There is no crowds and subsequent money coming in from that kind of “dead Orthodoxy.”
That is why sects within LCMS, WELS, and ELS have abrogated that doctrine with the swill of church growth, contemporary worship, and happy clappy charismatic Karma substituting entertainment and personality with the means of Grace. Lets make them feel good and maybe they will open their wallets to keep ours “flush with mammon.”
This is a natural by-product of UOJ which distorts and twists Lutheran dogma into contemporary worship. It transcends the pastor’s role in the Office of the Holy Ministry into to “the facilitator, the entertainer, the CEO, the Marketer, the telethon Collector, the face of the “ Corporate Christian Shield.” He will talk down to the ecclesiastical church while simultaneously promoting a new ecclesiastical church which resembles a type of Christian Feudalism fueled by entertainment and gimmicks; both material and psychological, while steering the church with a totalitarianism reserved for Guatemalan Generals.
This is formula the WELS has used in the past and will continue to use in the future to keep the troupes in line.Yet it keeps the Pastor off the hook for actual work in the church; spreading the fruits of the Gospel in visiting, consoling, teaching and preaching as John outlines the Sheppard in His church according to his Gospel.
Any layman or Pastor that has had the audacity to question the WELS synod of Cardinals ,has been met with a litany of backstabbing, gossip, and the threat of financial ruin. Paul Rydecki’s treatment is the same. Instead of calling for a “ Free Conference” to discuss differences we must hold a stacked “Inquisition” where the verdict is already decided to be guilty. It’s the WELS way. I tell my WELS friends to find some reformed mega church and attend because since they are reformed anyway, at least the reformed do entertainment better. Yet the WELS/Cascione accuse Paul Redecki of reformed doctrine?
What is truly disturbing is that Black Jack Cascione who left the LCMS for the independent Association called ULMA based on principles of Lutheran doctrine, finds himself in bed defending the WELS who in comparison makes John Dillenger (LCMS) look like a choir boy in the race to apostasy.
I truly hope that the next book he publishes using NPH, gives him fat residuals then it will have been worth it. But to accuse Paul Rydecki of false doctrine in characterizing his writings--without an open dialog in a “Free Conference” format--is typically the kind of “Kangaroo Court” justice the WELS gives its dissidents.
It’s the kind of injustice Black Jack Cascione complained about when he exited the LCMS years ago.
Signed,
Caleb
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VirtueOnline - News.
New Bishop Consecrated
VirtueOnline - News:
DENVER, CO: PEARUSA Holds Inaugural Sacred Assembly. New Bishop Consecrated
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
November 13, 2012
Some 200 lay delegates and clergy representing more than sixty churches and missions of PEARUSA gathered at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church in Denver to hold their Inaugural Assembly that also saw the consecration of their first bishop.
PEARUSA is the House of Bishops under the Anglican Province of Rwanda recognized and united to the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). They met October 29 -31.
In attendance were nine of eleven Rwandan bishops attending including Rwandan Archbishop Onesiphore Rwaje. "We come as brothers to stand with those we have been in relationship with for many years. We also come in celebration to consecrate the Rev. Steve Breedlove of Chapel Hill, North Carolina as a bishop and leader of the PEARUSA mission." He was former rector of all Saints in chapel Hill. He will be the Presider bishop nationwide of PEARUSA.
Some 225 were registered to attend, however only 195 were present owing to Hurricane Sandy.
Also present at PEARUSA was ACNA Archbishop Robert Duncan who preached at the consecration service. Also attending were five bishops from the Anglican Church in North America; Bill Atwood, John Guernsey, Todd Hunter, Neil Lebhar, and Bill Thompson, as well as Anglican priest Clark Lowenfield and Canon Jack Lumanog.
PEARUSA met for worship, fellowship, prayer and meetings as three networks formed in the West, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast along with the East Coast as a Network in formation since last summer. PEARUSA celebrates being under the Anglican Province of Rwanda and being united to the Anglican Church in North America.
"We are under the authority of the Anglican Province of Rwanda. We are united to ACNA. We come as brothers," said Archbishop Rwaje, "to stand with those we have been in relationship with for many years and to encourage the mission of reaching North America with the gospel of Jesus Christ."
The PEARUSA relationship with Rwanda began in 1997 with the focus of making disciples of Christ in mission providing extraordinary opportunities to work together in ministry in both countries said a PEARUSA spokesperson.
PEARUSA came into focus following the breakup of the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMIA) with several bishops leaving the AMIA and wanting to stay under the Anglican province of Rwanda. Several chose to ally themselves directly with the ACNA. The two groups now work together in partnership. www.pearusa.org
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DENVER, CO: PEARUSA Holds Inaugural Sacred Assembly. New Bishop Consecrated
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
November 13, 2012
Some 200 lay delegates and clergy representing more than sixty churches and missions of PEARUSA gathered at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church in Denver to hold their Inaugural Assembly that also saw the consecration of their first bishop.PEARUSA is the House of Bishops under the Anglican Province of Rwanda recognized and united to the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). They met October 29 -31.
In attendance were nine of eleven Rwandan bishops attending including Rwandan Archbishop Onesiphore Rwaje. "We come as brothers to stand with those we have been in relationship with for many years. We also come in celebration to consecrate the Rev. Steve Breedlove of Chapel Hill, North Carolina as a bishop and leader of the PEARUSA mission." He was former rector of all Saints in chapel Hill. He will be the Presider bishop nationwide of PEARUSA.
Some 225 were registered to attend, however only 195 were present owing to Hurricane Sandy.
Also present at PEARUSA was ACNA Archbishop Robert Duncan who preached at the consecration service. Also attending were five bishops from the Anglican Church in North America; Bill Atwood, John Guernsey, Todd Hunter, Neil Lebhar, and Bill Thompson, as well as Anglican priest Clark Lowenfield and Canon Jack Lumanog.
PEARUSA met for worship, fellowship, prayer and meetings as three networks formed in the West, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast along with the East Coast as a Network in formation since last summer. PEARUSA celebrates being under the Anglican Province of Rwanda and being united to the Anglican Church in North America.
"We are under the authority of the Anglican Province of Rwanda. We are united to ACNA. We come as brothers," said Archbishop Rwaje, "to stand with those we have been in relationship with for many years and to encourage the mission of reaching North America with the gospel of Jesus Christ."
The PEARUSA relationship with Rwanda began in 1997 with the focus of making disciples of Christ in mission providing extraordinary opportunities to work together in ministry in both countries said a PEARUSA spokesperson.
PEARUSA came into focus following the breakup of the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMIA) with several bishops leaving the AMIA and wanting to stay under the Anglican province of Rwanda. Several chose to ally themselves directly with the ACNA. The two groups now work together in partnership. www.pearusa.org
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Jon Buchholz - You Owe Jay
For the Additional Confusion about Justification
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Jay Webber Cannot Articulate Justification by Fait...":
When reading the discussion of UOJ with (W)ELS Pastor David Jay Webber on Extra Nos in 2010 - note the admission that the object of UOJ's faith is the forgiveness of sins that occured when Christ died for the world's sins. UOJ's faith is not focused on Christ.
Buchholz claims that Subjective Justification is not a point of contention between the apostate UOJists and those defending one Justification solely By Faith Alone. In fact it is under contention because UOJ teaches falsely concerning the Righteousness of Faith (which they deny) and the object of faith. It is one of UOJ's tenets that faith cannot be created by a promise of the forgiveness of sins but only by the forgiveness of sins being declared. That's why Cascione drives the issue - which came first: forgiveness or faith. UOJ states it must be forgiveness otherwise faith cannot be created. Christ and the Lutheran Confessions declare the object of the Holy Spirit's faith, the righteousness of Christ, is Christ and Him crucified for the sins of the whole world.
UOJ is a damnable heresy in all of its parts.
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Jay Webber Cannot Articulate Justification by Faith
Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Jay Webber Praises His Catechumen Jon Buchholz for...":
(W)ELS David Jay Webber, "All Confessional Lutherans should be able to accept what he says and be at peace with it."
This statement sure is loaded. Again, I love it when UOJists open their mouths to defend their chief man-made doctrine. UOJ contradicts Scripture in ALL POINTS. It is a catastrophic failure.
Buchholz' 2012 effort to bolster the false gospel of UOJ is another example. His claim that the whole unbelieving world has died to the Law in Christ is simply one of a thousand false teachings that UOJ produces. It proves that the entire doctrine is false, as well as showing that Buchholz is unable to write an essay about Justification that is in harmony with Scripture and the Confessions.
Pastor Webber proved that his inability to articulate the Lutheran doctrine of Justification years ago while debating with Dr. Cruz and myself on Extra Nos in Australia.
http://extranos.blogspot.com/2010/03/grinding-my-ax.html
It, in fact, was Webber's contention that all believers as well as unbelievers are under God's wrath over sin and simultaneously under His grace, having been forgiven all sin. It was the first time I had heard of UOJ's New Age teaching of God's multiple realities that Buchholz used to excommunicate faithful Pastor Paul Rydecki.
This is the time when the laity and clergy decide, by God's grace, to fill their lamps with oil and confront the false gospel of UOJ that is destroying their denominations or continue to pledge their allegiance to apostate men who've rejected the gospel of Christ and the faith of the Holy Spirit.
Galations 1:10, "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."
UOJ Argument - Big Yolk - Not What It Is Cracked Up To Be.
Eggsperts Scramble for Answer
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twissted_sisster has left a new comment on your post "Another Jack - Not Kilcrease - Suffers from Delusi...":
Pastor Rydecki has clearly stated his position on the Doctrine of Justification. Many other pastors and lay people, along with his own congregation have searched the Scriptures and concur with his belief and teachings. It seems the whole argument has been reduced to, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Please don't insult my intelligence.
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GJ - Jack Cascione did not bother to ask me if I suddenly began writing anonymous articles to send to Herman Otten via another person. That is Jack's contention. Cascione proved he could not read with comprehension when he threw out his guesses about who dared criticize his precious UOJ.
Otten could have emailed the article to me, since he does contact me by phone and email. But he sent it only to UOJ Enthusiasts Cascione and Bartling. Most of the clergy do not have enough faith to discuss issues out in the open, using their own names, so I get blamed whenever storm clouds appear over Cistern Flats, Iowa or Wanoocha Springs, Wisconsin.
I found it amusing that Otten had to feature two front-page stories against justification by faith while claiming later that he had no room for a Missouri pastor's critique of UOJ. How often have you heard, "Do not start your own publications. Send them to Christian News"? I have lost track. When people object to articles being deliberately spiked, the Otten response is - "Start your own paper."
That is a good summary of SynCon thinking, which not too discerning. If I had to plant my flag next to Walther, who was Stephan's pimp and later his kidnapper, I would be just as confused.
Who is the greatest Biblical expositor of all time, according to Protestants everywhere (and some Catholics)?
Answer - Martin Luther.
I would begin with Luther rather than a syphilitic bishop - and his enforcer and pimp. SynCon loyalists will spit out their coffee, choking on their Antabuse tablets and yelling, "How can he slander my beloved synod and the Great Walther?"
As Luther taught so clearly, we have to begin with the Holy Spirit teaching us through the Word, not by identifying with one mortal man or another. Walther, like Stephan, taught himself - not the Word.
Walther toppled the Bishop and appointed himself Pope. To this day, SynCons draw all their wisdom from the college graduate whose spiritual formation came from cell groups led by Halle graduates.
The UOJ Enthusiasts attach themselves to recent heroes, so they imagine their opponents must have a similar training academy and hazing rituals. My only purpose in taunting some and amusing others is to get them involved in Luther, the Book of Concord, and a few of the great theologians (Chemnitz, Chytraeus, Gerhard).
I am happy to publish the opinions of UOJ, because their wisdom makes me burst into tears - tears of laughter.
Do they reciprocate and say, "Jackson believes in justification by faith, so we must disagree because..."?
I cannot convince anybody. I am pleased if my posts have encouraged the study of the Word. The Scriptures judge all human books and all human authorities. That is why we must gasp in disgust when SynCons use Holy Mother Synod or a confused essay as the ultimate authority.
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