Wednesday, March 1, 2023

United Lutheran Seminary President and the Bread Bowl and Bible: A Meal of Soup and Bread Provided by Oley Cluster Churches with Gluten-free, Vegetarian, and Kosher Options.

 Rev. Dr. Bishop President Guy Erwin, an Osage Indian, with his husband, Rob Flynn.

Bread Bowl & Bible returns to St. John’s - "Hope – through Lament to Resilience to Gluten-free."
Bread Bowl & Bible returns to St. John’s! Open to the public, you are invited on March 12 & 19 from 3-6 pm. A meal of soup and bread provided by Oley Cluster churches with gluten-free, vegetarian, and kosher options. There will be a free-will offering. The theme is ‘Hope – through Lament to Resilience to Gluten-free.’ Guest presenters are President Rev. Dr. Guy Erwin of United Lutheran Seminary – with a Native American perspective (March 12) and Rabbi Brian Michelson of Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom with a Jewish perspective (March 19).
The elevation of Vicky Gene Robinson to the position of bishop in the Episcopal Church was extremely destructive. Virtue Online has frequent updates on Episcopal congregations affiliating outside of Holy Mother Experimental Disasters.





Mid-Week Lent 1 Vespers Service, 7 PM.


Sermon Hymn #151       Christ the Life of All the Living


The Order of Vespers                                             p. 41

The Psalmody                          Psalm 4                  p. 123                             
The Lection                            The Passion History

                                               

 

Sermon Hymn #245       God Loved the World

 

The Sermon –    God So Love the World

"To Be Engraved in Gold Letters on Our Hearts" - Luther

 
The Prayers

The Lord’s Prayer

The Collect for Grace                                            p. 45

The Hymn #653    Now the Light Has Gone Away



God So Love the World

KJV John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

KJV John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

KJV Numbers 21:5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. 6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

The connection between John's Gospel and Numbers needs to be observed, especially because the Fourth Gospel is really a commentary on the Five Books of Moses (the Torah - which means Teaching). The bedrock for the best known passage in the Bible is this peculiar passage. Since when is a brass serpent used to heal people?

The real message of Numbers is to show the people griping against God's Word and paying for it. Their sinfulness is healed by their contrition (sorrow for sin) and by using a copy of the serpent as a physical symbol of God's healing. Not some but all bitten by the serpents, were healed by God through looking upon the serpent.

The figure of the serpent was from many centuries before during the important Exodus. This is where we see - especially in John - the past, present, and future are together in the Holy Trinity. Jesus said, "Even as that serpent figure was lifted up in healing, so will everyone be who looks upon the crucifix, believing."

That may seem too simple, but the authors of ELCA's Christian Dogmatics (Braaten-Jenson) mock the crucifixion repeatedly in their gassy, pompous, ridiculous textbook for ELCA pastors. If people look upon the crucifix with derision and scorn, they are not members of the Kingdom of God, nor are they led by the Good Shepherd.

As Luther said many times, the key word is faith. Jesus teaches faith in Him, not faith plus good works. The good works are a result of faith in Christ, the fruit of the Gospel believed and treasured. Jesus did not say the Israelites were to pay for their sins and then look upon the healing figure. They were to look upon the serpent and believe God could heal them.

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 

This is not complicated. John's Gospel is written in the simplest possible words, with simple grammar. Believing in Him means not perishing, and to emphasize that - believing in Him means eternal life.

There is a miracle in our change from actual death to eternal life. No matter who the person might be, when that has happened, there is no proof, except the truth of God's Word. Jesus is emphatic about this eternal life through faith in Him. When the sisters worried about their brother dying, even though they knew about eternal life, Jesus said, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life."

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

There is so much in this verse. and yet numbskulls find something that appeals to their apostasy. God loved the world so much that He gave His one-and-only Son. That means that the crucifixion is God's gift to mankind (part A) because of His love. 

Like the serpent from Numbers, who ever looks upon the crucifix, believing, should never die. Already this verse predicts cases of temporary death, well recognized today and feared in the past. Believing in Him means everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 

This is a shock for many, but God did not send His Son to gather merits to gain approval from the Father. Condemnation is erased through faith in the Son of God, and faith alone gives us access to God's grace (Romans 5:1-2). The Law condemns and can never be mollified by works, suffering, feeling horrible, etc. But - this is adored and abused by the Objective (Faithless) Justification mob - the entire world is the target of this action by the Father and Son, revealed by the Holy Spirit.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

The jugheads and Satan worshipers find a loophole for their dogma in verse 17, but God anticipated this in Christ, showing that their precious Calvinism, Pietism, and Catholicism are wrong. Believers are not condemned, but unbelievers are already condemned. Those who believe in the only-begotten Son are saved - no one else.



Message from a Wisconsin Synod Member - "Mark and Avoid Their Schools - At All Cost!"

 "There is no Church Growth in WELS..."
wrote Wayne Mueller.

One person said to me that telling the truth about the Wisconsin Synod (WELS) "saved lives." If you want the short version, read George Orwell's 1984. After the hero has been tortured and humiliated to the point of death, he recognizes the ultimate truth - "I love Big Brother."

WELS does not mind parents having children, as long as the sect makes sure the children belong to them, submit to them, love them. That is carried out through a system of bullying where the victims - I mean students - are shown that they must all stick together in bullying the ones that "do not fit in." That includes telling the parents what is going on. Silence + lies = unity!

The sect only knows two classes - the Names and the victims. I looked over the current District President list. They are the sons of people who had positions before - Names. Being obnoxious toward others is no problem, because everyone knows the family tree. A common saying is, "He is a Name." The victim is automatically guilty for letting parents or anyone else know what is going on.

WELS/ELS members and pastors were cautioned to say "Marvin Schwan" with reverence and awe. He gave more money per capita to the ELS and a few million to the LCMS.

I know of three examples of physical assault that would put clergy in prison, but "ratting out" the guilty parties means the person who told is guilty, excommunicated forever, and shunned forever.

WELS has a great school system. Just ask them. They are told they are the best, sticking to the true doctrine, considering Heaven somewhat disappointing, compared to their sect. They cover up for what the teachers do. At one prep school (expensive WELS-only high school) a teacher became an unperson instantly. Why? No one knew, no one told. 

The WELS Grapevine is a source of great pride - and why not? - they use it to quash the truth and to slander those who question the doctrine, morals, and drinking habits of the Names. If the information comes from the Grapevine, remember - it is utterly false. 

Responses from WELS leaders is exactly the same as the Ministry of Truth in 1984. A district president will say, 

  • "That never happened." or
  • "I don't know anything about it." or
  • "Who told you?!? That's a lie?!"

Asking for more details threatens to put the individual in the WELS Gulag Archipelago, a system for allowing someone to exist...barely.

If a hit is ordered on a pastor, the clergy will pull away all the members of that congregation. Then they will blame the victim and say, "He is bitter" to everyone as they wave goodbye, either to unemployment or to a parish small, remote, almost penniless. I was at a convention where someone said to me, "He is bitter," which meant no one listened to his question about changes in Holy Mother WELS.

On the other hand, if someone (a buddy) is caught in his sins, he gets a job driving a Schwan truck or chilling in Alaska, depending on his status. Higher level DNA gets him an instant new call, no matter the crime.

One WELS pastor was so bad that he did not have a first parish. No, that was erased from sect history somehow. Someone read this blog and saw a photo of him as a pastor from another, earlier parish. "What?! WELS said he came over from ___!" - never telling that he served another WELS parish but not admitting it. That made no sense, considering the way they regiment the calls.

WELS practices mushroom management for the laity. They keep them in the dark, cover them with horse manure, and harvest the loot years later.

I should add, "Being a Church Growth advocate - tattoo and all - means having a Get Out of Jail Free card." Drunk driving arrest? No problem. So drunk the seminary professor is found on the wrong side of the street? No problem. Give it time - conviction erased because it never happened! That is the genius of being born already forgiven and saved. The Names know this. Running a pedo business with free trips around the world? Give him instant absolution - without contrition - and obtain a laughable sentence so he can offend again. And he did.

I have covered three criminal cases where three different WELS synod presidents have exerted all their influence to make the guilty go free or get a super-light sentence. And - it never happened anyway. 

WELS has a special hobby for their clergy, unlike anything I have experienced. Their GA initiation, which is carried out at their seminary, with versions at the college and other schools, dotes on lying. The whole idea of GA is to terrify the new students, shame them, insult them, assault them (but not if they are Names) and end the festive week with alcohol. As several professors told me, "Those are synod vitamins." Everything in GA is a lie, which binds "the brethren" as they call themselves.

WELS pastors pride themselves in lying and betraying confidences. They will act completely innocent of something, even a minor thing, to protect the Names - my best friend, my classmate, "I drank a lot of beer with him." If two seminarians are caught in the mattress room, ready to party, everyone will know it but not know it. They graduate, get married, have kids, etc.

Parents are much better off keeping their children from any WELS school. Anything whispered on the streets of their town will be shared in the Love Shack. The guilty will always be protected and rewarded. Supposed trusted and pastors will tell any lie they can to protect the guilty. Lawsuits cost money and they love money in Milwaukee. They lay treasures for themselves on earth, where Thrivent gets the elderly to sign Thrivent's irrevocable charity annuities over to WELS (not the parish). The drones at the Love Shack are the ones who bowed and scraped before Marvin Schwan - just like LCMS and ELS - never noticing his adultery, his divorce costing him almost nothing, and the death of his wife.

This is a good one to remember. I sent the Forbes article to Christian News about Marvin Schwan, a photo of him laughing and getting his divorce for $1 million and a Cadillac for his first wife. Otten printed it. I told Jay Webber and he told his handlers in the ELS. What nobody ever told me was that Mrs. Schwan saw the reprint in CN and ended her own life. Jay and the hierarchy blamed me (behind my back) and kept their secret to themselves for many years.

Marvin, who broke up his marriage and his manager's marriage, died fairly soon. WELS was scared to death that their honey-pot of funds was gone, but they still get some. 

Given how Marvin betrayed and cheated his wife, with WELS/ELS/LCMS applauding and genuflecting, how much can any synod member or pastor respect the Love Shack (WELS), the Purple Palace (LCMS) and the Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie (ELS)?

I don't love Big Brother or those who infest the glittering palaces of the Olde Synodical Conference. CFW Walther deliberately broke up the Conference by slinging his Calvinistic election without faith dogma. And he is revered today as the man who 

  1. Covered for the flagrant promiscuity of his bishop, Martin Stephan, STD. 
  2. Stole the gold and property from Stephan, and
  3. Promoted the Objective (Faithless) Justification of Pietism and Calvin.

 Will sell to highest bidder. Don't you love the plastic Schwan floating by?


Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Food Progress - Creation Medicine

Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, and asparagus are satisfying to eat and especially nutritious.

I hear from a number of people who are looking closely at the food being promoted and the alternatives being ignored.

I look forward to going to the grocery store, especially since most items cost almost nothing, especially with the recent declines in those areas. Frozen vegetable prices have dropped quite a bit, though 20 cents a package up or down is not traumatic or exciting. 

Here is my shopping list and anti-list

List of Great Foods To Eat

Fruits are the first stop - lots of blueberries, large amounts of Crisp apples, some oranges. Pineapple is great to eat when it is available. Pomegranate juice is delicious and favored by many.

Chopped frozen spinach blends in with the vegetable soup. Fresh baby spinach is good for calming the appetite later in the day.

Other chopped frozen greens I have tried are turnip, kale, and collards. 

More Frozen Items:

  1. Chopped onions and peppers.
  2. Peas and carrots.
  3. Mushrooms.
  4. Combos like chopped beans, cauliflower, carrots, etc.
  5. Asparagus.
  6. Edamame, seeds only.

The daily vegetable stew starts with many of those ingredients plus tomato paste and walnuts.

Salt Warning

Americans eat too much salt, especially fast foods, but also in grocery stores.

I buy garbanzo canned beans regularly for protein and many other benefits. The bean section is very large, and most of the beans are very high in salt.

Garbanzo (chick peas) are usually 110 ml of salt. 

They can also be 220 m.

Flavored beans - like pork and beans - are usually 480 ml. So are black beans, which are also lower at 220 ml.

Be warned - when they promote flavoring and "seasoning," they mean higher price and much higher salt. Did you know salt cost so much? We are all too used to it, unfortunately, and it often pushes up blood sugar. "Seasoned" frozen vegetables are double the price and very high in salt.

Total Avoidance Shopping

It has taken time, but I no longer buy:

McDonalds

Donuts

Potatoes

Fried chicken

Prepared meals

Colas, whether sugared or "non-sugar" but the same in effect -- and salted up.

Fizzy water - expensive and salinated.

Chips, Fritos, popcorn.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a bit extreme in some areas, but his emphasis on vegetables, fruit, nuts, and seeds is correct, better priced by far, and medicinal.

The irony is that we spend a fortune on medicines that always have side effects and often do not cure the problem. I am not anti-medicine, just cautious. Two doctors laughed at vegetables improving eyes and the fragile macula (as in macular degeneration), but I laughed inwardly at their eye drops which lower eye pressure but do not cure it.

Vegetables, fruit, nuts, and certain seeds have powerful healing built in, engineered by the Lord of Creation, the Son of God. The nutrition in each of those delicious Creation medicines has been quantified. Google "nutritional value of..." and add the food.

Everyone can nod agreement about this - Desserts and fast foods are easy to eat, but they are not so appetizing after eating fresh fruit, vegetables, and nuts. Nothing is quite so good as eating a combination of fresh or frozen vegetables on an empty stomach.

Monday, February 27, 2023

The Parables of Jesus - The Sower and the Seed



The Sower and the Seed – Matthew 13:1-13


 

KJV 13 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: 8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. 9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.



            This parable is about the efficacy of God’s Word, the Holy Spirit always at work in the Word, but also about the ways this activity is impeded. Sowing seed today is not as unusual as the easy chair gardeners imagine. Many seeds, like dill and buckwheat, easily take root from being sown and prosper beyond our dreams. I bought a large bag of buckwheat seed and scattered it by hand in the Rose Garden, because that would improve the rich soil even more. That worked so well that the plants grew unexpectantly beyond knee-high and made it difficult even to see the rose bushes. My yard crew came to the rescue by carefully wee-whacking the buckwheat without hurting the roses. The ground covered with greens, which enriched the soil and prevented weed growth. However, the buckwheat plants were mown after their seeds had matured, so I soon had another crop of buckwheat, more lush, more shading the roses than ever before. My Laotian neighbors across the street pointed at my garden and laughed! Such is the power of God’s Creation – and the Word.

            Jesus taught this parable, sitting in the ship, near the shore. This allowed Him to speak clearly to the large crowd along the shore, His voice carried clearly over the water to be clearly heard. After teaching many parables, He taught about the sower and the seed.

The work of sowing means the seeds will necessarily land in various places rather than being planted individually or dropped into rows already dug. As everyone knows, every seed is imbued with the power of life. Though some seed many not germinate, most will start to grow.

4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

Growing areas are bound to have worn, trampled, hard soil for pathways, and those areas invite birds to get a quick meal. They will sit above the planting area, wise about their next meal, clucking and chortling about the easy feast coming.

5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

Rocky soil seldom nurtures seed, especially when its life depends on depth, moisture, and sunlight. Initial growth is soon thwarted by frost or lack of rain.

            7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

            One classic measurement of soil fertility is to look at the thorns. If they are strong and healthy, then useful plants will also do well there.

            8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. 9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

            The joy of every gardener and farmer is to plant living seed and watch it grow, flower, and provide food. This parable teaches about the power of God’s Creation and the magnificent growth engineered by the Son of God, the Lord of Creation, the Word that executed the commands of God the Father.

 

10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

 

            10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

            The parables are not intended for those who want a quick answer and a clever quip to go with it. Although the Word of God is simple and plain, the text is designed to make us study it, compare it to other similar concepts in the Bible, and challenge each other to believe and understand God’s meaning.

12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

I had the difficult but eventual good experience of learning New Testament studies from ordained unbelievers. Both men earned Ivy League doctorates and both denied the truth of Jesus’ resurrection, using the same lame excuse, confused by two angels at the tomb but only one speaking. Both men could recite what they were told yet they did not concentrate on the Biblical text itself and its clear meaning. Although these two professors spent years in study, they did not comprehend the Scriptures. In contrast, Nils Dahl, Abraham Malherbe, and Robert Wilson concentrated on the meaning of the text. Dahl said, “The text! The text! That is all we really know!”[1]

Those who fall into the rationalistic view of the Bible often know the obvious facts but none of the meaning. In fact, when ordained but rationalistic scholars teach, they cannot avoid being shallow and sarcastic about the Biblical narrative. The Isaiah predictive is eerily prophetic about our age of apostasy, and it also fits previous times of doctrinal darkness and denial.

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

            Jesus encouraged the audience, people listening and seeing Him, filled with trust that the promised Messiah was before them. These early witnesses and believers were the foundation for the Christian Faith when the Savior died on the cross, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven.

 

 

 

18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. 19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. 20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; 21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. 22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

            The explanation of the parable contrasts faith with indifference and rejection.

1.      The seed on hardened ground, snatched by birds, is like the interested but wavering souls who have no trust and are easily made victims of Satan, not growing in the person’s heart but snatched away for the Opposer.

2.      The seed falling on stony areas is like the person who hears the Word, rejoices, but soon falls away because he is not rooted or grounded in the Faith.

3.      The seed falling among thorns is like so many who hear the Word but let it be choked by the weight of this world and the deceptive lure of riches.

4.      But seed that falls on good soil includes those who hear and understand the Word, bear fruit 100, 60, and 30 times over.

This parable is cautionary and also promising, because the sower must accept the many losses as well an enormous harvest. The promises are an abundance of grace and forgiveness through faith in Jesus Christ, an eternity won by Him in the worst of circumstances, and the fruits of the Spirit in our daily lives.



[1] The Dean of Yale Divinity School said he would not hire any more Lutherans because they were too conservative. Serving at the time were Nils Dahl, Paul Holmer, George Lindbeck, and Jaroslav Pelikan: giants in their field. 

WELS Abuse Keeps Coming Up on Facebook and Reddit

 

WELS Fuller-trained First VP - Jim Huebner 

Jim Huebner (VP of WELS) supported a middle aged WELS professor that convinced a teenager to move in with him - keeping up with WELS family tradition. Jim’s father supported a murderer.

r/exLutheran - Jim (VP of WELS) supported a middle aged WELS professor that convinced a teenager to move in with him - keeping up with WELS family tradition. Jim’s father supported a murderer.

WELS is a cult of murder and molestation.


More here.


OP·2 mo. ago·edited 2 mo. ago

The person murdered in 1980 was Sharon Ruth Just - July, 21,1980 who was involved with Arizona Lutheran Academy, Phoenix, Arizona.

Teacher Al Just was convicted but only spent a few years in prison. He married his children's babysitter, but she divorced him years later.

Al Just literally tried to convince a jury that he accidentally dropped his wife on a knife.

Jim’s father supported Al Just and defended him publicly - many WELS members/leaders rallied around the murder during sentencing, some traveling from New Ulm, MN to speak.

Women are not important to WELS - even less forty years ago. I’m sure the murder and light sentence kept a few WELS homemakers in line to the delight of their husbands.

Googling the names involved will pull in all the details you could ever want.

Google Andrew Schmiege for the sex scandal and Huebner’s cowardly response to the situation involving a WELS worker and a teen.

Pastor John Boeder was publicly called out for molestation and sexual assault - another case where WELS did absolutely nothing. There’s dozens of these cases out there.


You can find the Tabor story in a news archive.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19780904&id=WNE_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=NuEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=941,943797&hl=en


Pastor John Boeder

https://www.reddit.com/r/exLutheran/comments/wm96y3/looking_for_other_mlc_sexual_assault_survivors/



 The WELS Grapevine is always in place to protect the guilty.


The Collapse of ELCA Seminaries - Plus LCMS, WELS, and the ELS

ELCA bishops, pictured here, keep adding up the "firsts." Eaton is showing off the orans posture, so we know who is the boss, I mean, the Presiding Bishop.

Yes, they coordinate through Thrivent and bow to ELCA demands. That makes WELS-ELCA-LCMS synergistic!


The so-called United Lutheran Seminary got very cranky about having a Presby-Lutheran lady president who fell short of the radicals' demands. They hired a newly minted bishop, who was elevated soon after his quickie ordination.



Eaton, a Harvard graduate, speaks a language only known to those who translate Newspeak.


Liz Eaton is on the far Left, from her perspective. Her associate was elected Secretary, though the idea of lady secretaries is obsolete.

Bishop Susan Johnson is the Bishop of All Canada, eh? Men need not apply for the job, eh?

The oh-so boring Ovaltines are busy protecting Matt the Fatt from his volatile temper, canceling Luther's Large Catechism, then using the old red herring fallacy to bring the disaster back. Meanwhile, someone posted the staggering collapse of ELCA.


Here are some facts of recent Lutheran history.

On August 7, 2009, the membership of ELCA was 4,633,887. [GJ - 5.3 million in 1987]

From August 17-23, 2009 the ELCA Church-wide Assembly was held.

On December 31, 2021, the membership of ELCA was 3,035,615

The 1,598,272 Exodus from the ELCA can in part be attributed to the decisions made at the 2009 ELCA Assembly. 

Diversity does not work, unless it is selective. The Episcopalian Virtue Online published this photoshop twice.



Now over Half of the ELCA Bishops Are Women

2021 – 33 of 66 bishops are female, 32 male, 1 transgender

"The paucity could be felt in so many ways. When we sang, the women’s voices could hardly be heard. The meetings were also dominated by men‘s voices, men’s thoughts and men’s concerns. I recall in morning prayer one time, Bishop Kurt Kusserow inviting the men to modulate their voices so the women’s voices might be heard. The result was stunning. It became a metaphor for our theological and ecclesial deliberations. How might the men to modulate their voices so the women’s voices might be heard?"  [GJ - Indeed!]

  1. Elizabeth Eaton (2007)
  2. Wilma Kucharek (2002)
  3. Shelley Wickstrom (2012)
  4. Ann Svennungsen (2012)
  5. Tracie Bartholomew (2013)
  6. Suzanne Darcy Dillahunt (2013)
  7. Patricia Lull (2014)
  8. Barbara Collins (2016)
  9. Kristin Kuempel (2017)
  10. Katherine Finnegan (2017)
  11. Deborah Hutterer (2018)
  12. Patricia Davenport (2018)
  13. Idalia Negrón (2018)
  14. Laurie Skow-Anderson (2018)
  15. Sue Briner (2018)
  16. Lorna Halaas (2019)
  17. Laurie Larson Caesar (2019)
  18. Shelley Bryan Wee (2019)
  19. Regina Hassanally (2019)
  20. Constanze Hagmaier (2019)
  21. Laurie Jungling (2019)
  22. Susan Candea (2019)
  23. Leila Ortiz (2019)
  24. Ginny Aebischer (2020 SC)
  25. Amy Current (2020 SE IA)
  26. Tessa Moon Leiseth (2020 E ND)
  27. Amy Odgren (2020 NE MN)
  28. Joy Mortensen-Wiebe (2020 SC WI)
  29. Laura Barbins (2020 NE Ohio)
  30. Anne Edison-Albright (2020 E Central WI)
  31. Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl, the second female bishop in the ELCA, is serving as interim bishop in the Northeastern Iowa Synod this year, bringing the Conference of Bishops to 31/66 (47%) women this year.
  32. Brenda Bos (2021, SW CA)
  33. Paula Schmitt (2021, Allegheny)
  34. Dee Pederson (2021, SW MN)