Proverbs 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Bishop Megan Rohrer has resigned her position (1) after getting rid of an opponent in a recent election and (2) drawing her former church into court over daycare center funds in that church, Grace Lutheran in San Francisco. The ALPB Discussion Board has doubled-down on its Ovaltine orders as it discusses in minute detail what they do not understand or refuse to acknowledge.
I expect Rohrer will be in the news for a period of time. ELCA Presiding Bishop and Ex-bishop Rohrer are products of the 2009 ELCA convention which went against the rules they set for ordination back in 1987, when the Lutheran Church in America, The American Lutheran Church, and Seminex merged.
In ELCA, those excluded by the rules were welcomed into the church body as ordained pastors. One of those pastors, very active in the ALPB Discussion Board (10,000 comments) was arrested some time ago. My classmate at Yale Divinity, Stan Olson, was part of the rules change and welcoming the previously excluded. He got to write the Come Back to ELCA liturgy. "Awww,"(dabbing my eyes).
This commentary may seem obscure and vague, and it should be. I have followed the debacle since 1987 - 35 years - and it only grows worse.
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| WELS ran out of Germans, so they embraced ELCA - via Jeske - with the expected results. Thank you, Thrivent, another merger of losers. |
