Lutherans in the News - Stay Tuned - It Will Only Get Worse

 ELCA Bishop Burnside lost his position with his DUI hit-and-run, but WELS protects their DUI clergy with new locations and jobs.

Supposedly, this is a computer generation. But I have often told undergraduates, "Tweeting all day does not make you an expert in computers."

Likewise, people marvel at the universe of information available, but do they avail themselves of this new experience in the cause of sound doctrine? Not often enough.

My key advantages are 

• a general knowledge of the Lutheran church constellations and 
• curiosity about each Lutheran group. 

I found the Luther Seminary pagan worship story by starting with Google News and inserting various ELCA seminary names. For some reason, ELCA does not post the real news on their official websites, though hints abound. But there is an army of witnesses who write about all kinds of Lutheran and denominational events.

 Latini, an ordained Presbyterian minister and former associate dean of diversity... - Stop to finish laughing. OK. Ready to continue -
heads the combined seminaries of Gettysburg and Philadelphia. Why did they split? - The issue was Lutheran/Reformed union.

One hint from ELCA about seminary decline was a note about their executive council receiving new legal papers for several seminaries. To paraphrase Kenda, "Legal papers for old established schools? Now. I. Am. Interested." That could only mean new relationships with their property, endowments, faculties, and locations. That has proven true of:

1. Gettysburg and Philadelphia, large schools in the midst of the densest Lutherans in America - Pennsylvania. Merged. Merging is a polite word for closing, like saying, "She had work done."
2. Southern Seminary, trying to be a school for many denominations, now a college department.
3. Pacific Seminary, sold to become a Muslim campus, demoted to some kind of academic and cooperative program.
4. Trinity, formerly the seminary of Lenski and other notables, now a college department with a Seminex dean.
5. Wartburg, founded by Loehe, distinguished now by an unqualified president, Louise Johnson, perhaps chosen to close down this micro-hive and erase Loehe's name. And Reu's, too.
6. Luther, thrilled and excited to sell off some land, making the news a while ago by canning their president at Christmas, firing staff and faculty, and hoping.
7. Lutheran Spool of Theology, Chicago. Six seminaries merged to form a school constructed like a bridge, looking like a prison, boasting 91 MDiv students in all. 

Count them all - eight ELCA seminaries, ALC and LCA in origin, either needing to close or insolvent, burning up the bucks to pay their lazy, pagan faculty to promote the dogma of San Francisco.

Behold. Doom has come upon us all. Thrivent is the real executive council of ELCA-WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC (sic). And Jeske is in the lead, riding a Warg.