Saturday, December 1, 2012

Salaries Mean High Costs for Seminary Students


This does not meet the high standards of Paul McCain:
it's not stolen from The Catholic Encyclopedia!
No Call Paul's latest plagiarism - Santa Lucia.


McCain rec'd a $21,082 mega-raise between 2008 and 2010, so his current compensation in 2012 may be much higher. Likewise, Kintz rec'd a $23,471 mega-raise, and Schultz a $36,700 mega-raise. That's $81,253 total in mega-raises right during the Great Recession when too many LCMS members to count are collecting unemployment, and having their houses foreclosed on to boot!

By synod resolution in 2010, a committee studying what makes the CUS and seminaries so expensive is to report during the 2013 convention. It's already includes a salary study.  I hope they include CPH salaries, since buying books from CPH drives up student costs, and that cost is factored into what sized student loans can be taken out. Also, it affects doctrine and practice, since students know they can buy three or four Reformed books for the cost of one of CPH's supposedly Lutheran books:

CPH 2010 990 Form, Part II, p. 2:

Kintz: 257,095
Schultz: 242,427
McCain: 186,054
Total: $685,576

CPH 2008 990 Form, Part II, p. 2:

Kintz: 233,624
Schultz: 205,727
McCain: 164,972
Total: $604,323
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A note of explanation concerning one of the line items in the 990 Form that may cause confusion: Column F "Compensation reported in prior form 990 or Form 990-EZ" can't
be used for year-to-year comparisons because it comes from the W2 and includes deferred compensation:

excerpt: Consider another example:  Schedule J, Part II – Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, and Highest Compensated Employees, Column F.  This column heading reads “Compensation reported in prior Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.”  If taken at face value, one would probably report compensation as reflected from the prior year Form 990, but this column was intended to report total compensation included in an individual’s current W-2 that was previously reported on Form 990 as deferred compensation.

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narrow-minded has left a new comment on your post "Salaries Mean High Costs for Seminary Students":

Playing "The 8/18 Card" while blogging on company time for a six-figure salary: Priceless.

From Luther's large Catechism:

The Seventh Commandment.
222] Thou shalt not steal.

The same I say also of mechanics, workmen, and day-laborers, who all follow their wanton notions, and never know enough ways to overcharge people, while they are lazy and unfaithful in their work. All these are far worse than sneak-thieves, against whom we can guard with locks and bolts, or who, if apprehended, are treated in such a manner that they will not do the same again. But against these no one can guard, no one dare even look awry at them or accuse them of theft, so that one would ten times rather lose from his purse. For here are my neighbors, good friends, my own servants, from whom I expect good [every faithful and diligent service], who defraud me first of all.

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http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-lcms-either-non-prophet-or-non.html

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The LCMS: Either Non-Prophet or Non-Profit.
What Would No Call Paul and His Overpriced Boss Say?




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What Should the Synod Do?

http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=24932

excerpt:

CPH needs to rethink its mission. It should be taken back as a non-profit subsidized by synod. Hymnals and Catechisms should be “sold” at as near cost as possible. Grants should be created to help CPH give away hymnals and catechisms at less than cost. The point of the hymnal should be to unite the Synod in doctrine and practice not to underwrite a terrible VBS program that promotes contemporary worship. CPH execs should not be paid at the same rate as Zondervan execs but at district scale. The Catechism translation should be owned by the synod not CPH. It should be made available for reproduction, without cost, to anyone who is using it piously, without modifying it.




McCain rec'd a $21,082 mega-raise between 2008 and 2010, so his current compensation in 2012 may be much higher. Likewise, Kintz rec'd a $23,471 mega-raise, and Schultz a $36,700 mega-raise. That's $81,253 total in mega-raises right during the Great Recession when too many LCMS members to count are collecting unemployment, and having their houses foreclosed on to boot!

By synod resolution in 2010, a committee studying what makes the CUS and seminaries so expensive is to report during the 2013 convention. It's already includes a salary study.  I hope they include CPH salaries, since buying books from CPH drives up student costs, and that cost is factored into what sized student loans can be taken out. Also, it affects doctrine and practice, since students know they can buy three or four Reformed books for the cost of one of CPH's supposedly Lutheran books:

CPH 2010 990 Form, Part II, p. 2:

Kintz: 257,095
Schultz: 242,427
McCain: 186,054
Total: $685,576

CPH 2008 990 Form, Part II, p. 2:

Kintz: 233,624
Schultz: 205,727
McCain: 164,972
Total: $604,323
------------
A note of explanation concerning one of the line items in the 990 Form that may cause confusion: Column F "Compensation reported in prior form 990 or Form 990-EZ" can't
be used for year-to-year comparisons because it comes from the W2 and includes deferred compensation:

excerpt: Consider another example:  Schedule J, Part II – Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, and Highest Compensated Employees, Column F.  This column heading reads “Compensation reported in prior Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.”  If taken at face value, one would probably report compensation as reflected from the prior year Form 990, but this column was intended to report total compensation included in an individual’s current W-2 that was previously reported on Form 990 as deferred compensation.

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Salaries Mean High Costs for Seminary Students, Dec 1, 2012:

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/12/salaries-mean-high-costs-for-seminary.html

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Answering Paul McCain's False Accusations. More Proof of His Deceptions and Slander. McCain Violated Wikipedia Conditions with His Fraudulent Copyright Notice, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012:

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/11/answering-paul-mccains-false.html  

Tip Toe Through the Tulips, By the Window, That's Where I'll Be

The UOJ stylists would label this section about Augustine and justification by faith
"misleading."



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Dr. Greg,

Thank God Pr. Paul studied the issue himself and became convinced of the false gospel of UOJ. It is just not proper to speak of the whole world already righteous in Christ. It is contrary to Scripture and the Confessions would have no point in all of that exposition if it was so.

Except for Pr. Paul, the rest of the IL are still tippy-toeing with UOJ.

LPC

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Tiptoe through the window
By the window, that's UOJ.
Come tiptoe through the OJ with me.

Oh, tiptoe from the Gospel,
From old Luther and the BOC,
And tiptoe past the Scriptures with me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eQQKVKjifQ 


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GJ - The Gospel is justification by faith, because anything else is justification by law.

People become convinced about justification by faith on their own. All I can do is direct them to the relevant passages in the Book of Concord, some historical facts, and the plain meaning of the Word.