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| Norma A. Boeckler's cover for the book. |
Yesterday, I produced, directed, and starred in a 25-minute live streaming summary of Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant. The copy I displayed was the first edition, 1993, almost 30 years ago.
Northwestern Publishing House accepted CLP and put it on the printing schedule. Suddenly, they said in a letter that they would not print it until I changed my attitude. That book had to be published by me, and yet NPH heavily promoted it. Seminary professor Brug told seminarians it was a good book. I was already out of WELS at that point.
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| Designed and illustrated by Norma A. Boeckler |
Earlier, NPH published Liberalism, Its Cause and Cure. WELS punished NPH for letting that loose, and it was deliberately delayed. When I gave the last chapter as a conference paper, Kovaciny threw the xeroxed Means of Grace chapter and carried on, but no more than Wally Oelhafen and Fred Adrian, the mission dopes. I needed a final chapter for the book, and those tantrums clinched the essay for that role. Liberalism had at least three NPH printings.
Here is a classic Oelhafen-Adrian blurted statement shouted to the conference pastors - "Just because we went to Fuller Seminary doesn't mean we agree with their doctrine." (Paraphrased) Later, Adrian was kicked out of the ministry for cause, and DP John Seifert welcomed him back in. Kovaciny went to Russia after losing an argument with a utility pole.
I self-published Thy Strong Word, 2002, but switched to Lulu and Amazon after that. Print on demand seemed to be quite an advance at the time, a great way to save money and get books printed faster.
Now an inexpensive web camera and the Internet will get a message across the world. Broadcasts do not replace the written or spoken word, but they provide another medium for weal or woe.
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| Readers love the full color artwork inside the books. That used to cost a fortune. |
