Baby as Ski Sermon Prop - Better Than a Weapon

A WELS parish proudly left Ski's famous scrotum sermon on
their website - for many months.

See the baby as a sermon prop.

"One day, all this will belong to...
someone else."

Polluted WELS Blog Dead

http://pollutedwels.blogspot.com/

Blog has been removed

Sorry, the blog at pollutedwels.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.

Did you expect to see your blog here? See: 'I can't find my blog on the Web, where is it?'

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GJ - Do you wonder that I copy and paste blog posts and FB discussions?

One theory is that Buchholz said, "Erase the Polluted WELS Blog or be fired."

In other news - Paul McCain and Charles Austin were both permanently banned from the ALPB Online Forum. Both are back posting, which is regretted by most of the regulars.

McCain is also busy posting elsewhere, so the question arises, "Does he get $200,000 a year to blog?"

Norma Boeckler's Fourth Book - Religious Art

Order Religious Art here.

Norma Boeckler's fourth art book has just been published through Amazon - Religious Art.

This her Facebook page for art - Norma Boeckler's Art.

Norma Boeckler's website is a convenient place to order her prints and original art.

I admit to getting Norma started on the computer. When I took Photoshop at Glendale Community College, a professional artist was taking the class. His artistic skill was ideal for the Photoshop program, and his classroom examples made us gape in awe.

Norma Boeckler became a member of our congregation, and we saw how artistic she was. I encouraged her to learn Dreamweaver and Photoshop, so she took tutorials and began showing what a Christian artist could do.

Everyone enjoys Norma's daily offerings on Facebook. The number of works is staggering, so now people have a chance to own many of them in a printed book or as a Kindle ebook.

The books is divided into two main sections. The first part illustrates Biblical verses, which are included for each artwork. I have enjoyed seeing them as they developed. Many have been featured on this blog or in various books I put together.

The Last Supper, p. 30.

Part 2 of the book features Norma Boeckler's hymn illustrations. Bethany Lutheran Church may be  alone in featuring The Lutheran Hymnal and illustrating the great hymns with art.

Norma selects the well known and the less famous hymns. I teach a graduate class in web tools for educators. I argue that the content plus illustration makes the idea lasting in our minds. This book proves the value.

Norma Boeckler has so many contributions that I can only indicate a few. Readers know how much she continues to do on a daily basis.

This is the idea - she loves art, and everyone appreciates her unusual gifts and her expressions of Christian faith.

Wisconsin Protects Drunken ELCA Bishop Burnside - Who Killed This Woman's Mother - Maureen Mengelt

• Petitioning Wisconsin State Government 

Keep Maureen Mengelt's Memorial Plaque In Place

1. 1. 
    
   2. Petition by
      Megan Mengelt
      Sun Prairie, United States

The fact that I have to petition to keep a MEMORIAL plaque up in honor of my mother should speak volumes. Why should a mourning family and community have to fight to have a dedication kept in place? One person complains about it, and suddenly that constitutes the State of Wisconsin removing it entirely? Please sign to help prove that the majority vote should rule vs. a single complaint.

ELCA bishop Burnside was on his way to a church meeting when he mowed down Maureen Mengelt, and drove drunkenly away from the fatal accident.
Witnesses chased and trapped him.

The struggles that my family have had to put up with regarding all of this are just plain absurd. My mother was hit and killed by a drunk driver, a bishop at that, all while innocently taking a Sunday afternoon training run. That in itself has been the single most traumatic event of my life. But the aftermath of this case involving the State of Wisconsin is simply disgraceful. 

Bruce Burnside was free for over a YEAR while we tried to move the court case forward. That failure to proceed is due to the State of Wisconsin. During that painful year-long process, the community took comfort in placing running shoes at the site of the crash. These represented her love of running and how much she impacted fellow community members. Yet one person complained about them (Why? How does that affect their life, truly?) and the Department of Transportation removed them. 

My family has repeatedly gone out to collect those shoes from the State of WI and put them back on the site. Again, they would be removed days later. This cycle continued until we teamed up with Matt Glowacki to create a "proper" memorial. That way, we wouldn't have to continue dealing with these complaints and also have our memorial as a way to grieve and represent the beautiful soul that was taken from us that horrible day. 

We took time to create a tasteful dedication to my mother, Maureen Mengelt. Now we've been notified that the State of WI is removing the memorial site due to ONE measly complaint. This is truly an outrage. Why should one person dictate such drastic measures? What is so offensive to them that it must be removed entirely? How black can someone's heart be? This is not a distraction to drivers. This is a way to represent a wonderful life that was taken way too soon due to someone's choice to drink and drive. For this to be removed would be yet another failure to our family and the Sun Prairie community. The State of Wisconsin should be ashamed to even consider taking these actions.

To:
Wisconsin State Government 

Keep Maureen Mengelt's Memorial Plaque In Place

Sincerely,
[Your name]