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| Darth Vader's chapel - Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago |
I am a wee bit nostalgic about LSTC, comprising mergers of seven seminaries and now so broke it will rent space at a nearby Catholic school. The school and its Presbyterian partner sold the location to the Rockefeller funded U. of Chicago. They will get about $18 million for the two buildings and 3.5 acres.
Their Lutheran pipe organ was sold to another Catholic school, doubling the irony.
LSTC wanted their building to express open arms to the urban community, but they were happy to use the McCormick Seminary addition to close LSTC to that urban community. McCormick was "occupied" at one point, so the cloister effect was welcome for them too. How quickly the Left's goals sink into reality!
The new campus would replace not only one in Maywood, but also campuses in Rock Island, Ill., and Fremont, Neb.
The next year, a writer in Architectural Record described the building as “refreshingly free of any trace of obvious religious symbolism, and indeed has as much 20th century technological elan as the most advanced secular building.”
Christina and I saw the Augustana Seminary parcel sold to the college, and we visited LSTC for finishing some dissertation research in Chicago. We often visited Chicago and never worried about crime.
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| Robin Steinke, on the far right, is now the president of Luther Seminary. Her installation, viewed on the Net, foreshadowed the funeral of David Preus later - gloomy, unspirited, and poorly attended. |
Luther Seminary (ALC) merged with Northwestern Seminary (LCA) to become Luther Seminary. They are selling off parcels of land faster than a parish rummage sale.
Meanwhile, the ELCA seminary overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is now a Muslim school, the seminary at the bottom of the hill. They kept the name Pacific Seminary, though my choice was Over the Hill, or Sliding into Home Base, or HowLo CanU Get.
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| Guy Erwin, on the far right, became the new president of United Lutheran Seminary when the divided community discovered the previous seminary president had a history of being normal. |
In an abundance of caution, Gettysburg and Philadelphia, merged their names into "United Lutheran Seminary". The schools' mutual loathing was so great decades ago that I was warned never to use the wrong name for the school of the alumnus. I visited there once.
Christina and I visited Luther seminary once to get the goods on WELS working with ELCA via Thrivent. She found the article and said in the library, "Now I've got you (name withheld), you big, fat liar."
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| All the synods are "partners in ministry" in ministry - ELCA, LCMS, WELS, ELS, etc etc. |
