Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago - ELCA - Is Grooving with Presbyterian's McCormick Seminary Move

 

“We were ahead of the curve in theological education in our understanding of the economic impact of real estate for religious-affiliated institutions by selling our property, eliminating debt, and combining with longtime facility partners — the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and the Catholic Theological Union,” said Crawford. Among his other accomplishments, Crawford fostered and expanded a diverse, cross-cultural organization that has long been a historic priority for the institution, and firmly established McCormick’s presence and created goodwill in the community through the Theological Certificate program at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, the Center for Reparatory Justice, Transformation, and Remediation, and his leadership on the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago.

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/mccormick-theological-seminary-names-the-rev-dr-maisha-i-handy-as-its-12th-president/

Now the two seminaries, LSTC and McCormick, had to sell their property to pay off loans and waddle off to a Catholic center to rent space there. How the mighty are fallen!

LSTC was being built and staffed while Christina and I were completing Augustana College in Rock Island, which sent the Augustana Seminary faculty to join the LSTC merger. The dominoes have been falling ever since. Absorbing six Lutheran seminaries and joining McCormick (Presbyterian Church-USA) ended with the dud-duo selling off their buildings to rent from the Catholics. Wiping tears of joy from my gimlet eyes, I wonder if my sainted intern supervisor would say, "What's NEXT!"

Old Testament scholar and Princeton Professor Jacqueline Lapsley. In 2023, Lapsley became the first female president of Union Presbyterian Seminary of Richmond, Va. | Screengrab: YouTube/Union Presbyterian Seminary

Historic Presbyterian seminary elects first female president

A seminary in Virginia affiliated with the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States has elected the first female president in its 200-plus year history.

The Board of Trustees of Union Presbyterian Seminary of Richmond, a Presbyterian Church (USA) seminary that traces its origins back to 1812, voted last month to elect Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Jacqueline Lapsley as its new president. She will take office on July 1.  

In an interview with The Christian Post, Lapsley said that while it "feels wonderful to be called" as the first female president of Union, she does not "spend a lot of time pondering those 'firsts.'"

Listen Up! - Ye Faithless Walther Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic). Jesus, Paul, And All Scriptures Condemn You!

 

The papal tiara, modeled by Pope John 23, was replaced by the humble bishop's mitre. 

"For God is a great enemy to high titles and human wisdom, hence he allows them at times to be handled roughly, and puts them to shame in their speculations, that the truth of the proverb may appear: The learned are the most perverted." Luther's Sermons, Trinity 8.

The Pope, denominations, and all Lutheran sects decree from Vatican Hill - "God's Word is whatever we conjure up."

The Three-Year Lectionary came from Vatican II, which was only an embellishment and continuance of Vatican I, 1868-70, when the Pope and his minions were declared infallible. Today, the Pope's lectionary is used by ELCA, LCMS, WELS, and the micro-sects.

Some will shout or say, "The three-year lectionary is from the Scriptures! Are you opposed to the Word of God?!"

My answer is "Not at all. But you cannot tolerate the King James, the only one using the Traditional New Testament text. Therefore, every reading in the Antichrist's lectionary erases and corrupts verses as their toy, their game, their racket." 

They corrupt the resurrection of Jesus in Mark 16:9-20, which is scuppered by adding a break after Mark 16:8 or verses 9-20 dropped into a footnote to portray weakness. The  sacred Otten-Beck Bible does the same.

Part Two - Barth, Bultmann, Pieper, Tillich, Braaten-Jenson - ad nauseum - And the Antichrist Lutheran Synods

Most people have not read from the list of dogmaticians above, a blessing. Someone should edit a Dummies book describing them all in one slender, folksy volume. They are the font and the Spindletop of all the moderns. Braaten-Jenson even published a book called Mary the Mother of God.

The dogmaticians pile up their ideas and footnotes, dancing around with various notions they want to promote, destroy, or ignore. No matter what people guess, the goal is a big fat set of books that impress and make money. 

Lost in this carnival is the efficacy of the Word of God and faith in Jesus Christ. The theologians, clownish Biblical scholars, and seminary professors are united by their common apostasy. They might have begun as believers, but they can only succeed as skeptics who mock the Scriptures and encourage the mockery.

The Walther Four managers (they are not leaders) fulminate when anyone dares to teach clearly the Bible and Justification by Faith. They are the mini-popes, Antichrists in the plural, who rage against the Gospel while disparaging the Gospel.

KJV 1 John 2:18 - Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

The Vatican Audience Hall features a statue of Christ that looks like a demon.

The Vatican Audience Hall looks like the inside of a serpent - how revealing!

Reformation Seminar Lecture - Creation's Super Stew - A Daily Feast

Donuts have all the fattening products in one - sugar, flour, fats, and a tiny bit of seasoning.

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[GJ - I don't know what happened to do this with the video. I did have a problem getting the video started, but I thought it was OK.]

A listener - name withheld - asked that I describe Creation's Super Stew to help people change into a much healthier plan for eating. Diets do not work and crash diets end with binges exceeding the previous weight.

This is a step by step stew for lunch based on the wonders of Creation and a little meat. 

I use a two-quart sauce pan, garbanzo (chick pea) beans, greens, walnuts, onions and green/red peppers, sausage slices, tomato paste, and blue berries. 

Chickpea beans are the best in cost and loaded with a wide range.

1. Heat filtered water on the stove, stir stainless steel regularly to avoid burned spots.

2. Blueberries are a super-food and low in sugar. They are anti-cancer.

3. I place sliced sausage into the brew early for flavor and some meat. Charlie Sue supervises and gets her share.

4. I use a lot of spices next - turmeric, ground black pepper, cinnamon, Italian seasoning, allspice, cardamom, cumin, mustard powder, curry, etc. I no longer have a museum of tiny, unused bottles. Large ones cost almost the same amount as the tiny bottles.

5. Chopped frozen greens are loaded with nutrition if mustard is added to energize the nutrients. The best one for health is chopped kale. Other greens are spinach, turnip greens, collards, etc. Beans and greens satisfy hunger while processed foods, desserts, salt, and fats generate more craving and poor health.

6. Raw walnuts or almonds produce heavy (good) cholesterol which removes the dangerous light cholesterol.

7. Red and green peppers with onions help the mix of plant benefits.

8. This combination of plants mixed together with nuts, spices, and seeds will cover a wide spectrum of nutrition, many still being discovered.

9. Charlie Sue and I have fruit for breakfast and supper. I enjoy bananas, apples, pears, pineapple, oranges, etc. 

Diets do not work, because anyone can stop eating lots of fats, sugars, salt, and bread. The cravings double and arrive like Alabama tackles. It is better to slowly give up useless calories and replace them with the Creator's nutrition

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - “And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling; and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:3-5

 

Luther's Sermons - Matthew 7:15-23.
Eighth Sunday after Trinity, First Sermon

7. For when you are about to die, and you rely on the Pope and the councils and say: The Pope said this, the councils have resolved that, the holy fathers Augustine and Ambrose have thus determined, then the devil can easily put a hole in your drum and insinuate: What if this were false?

What if they had erred? And when such a temptation enters your mind, you are already overcome For this reason you must act conscientiously, so that you can boldly and defiantly say: This is God’s Word, on this I will risk body and life, and a thousand necks, if I had so many.

This St. Peter also means when he says in his first Epistle 1 Peter 4:11: “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God.” And St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:3-5: “And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling; and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”

8. Then they began to say: Yes, but how can we know what is God’s Word, and what is right or wrong? This we must learn from the Pope and the councils. Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God’s Word; otherwise you are undecided.

9. But our bishops, Caiaphas, Pilate and Herod insist upon it and rage so terribly, that a person must think them insane. They bring forth St. Augustine’s declaration: I would not believe the Gospel, if the honor of the church did not move me; and think they have already won. Then you answer: What does it concern us whether St. Augustine or Jerome, St. Peter or St. Paul, or even the archangel Gabriel from heaven, who is still greater, said it; yet it will profit me nothing, for I must have God’s Word, I will only hear what God says.

10. And God commands this Word to be told you through men, and especially has he permitted it to be proclaimed and written for you by the Apostles; for St. Peter and St. Paul do not preach their own word, but God’s Word, as Paul himself testifies in 1 Thessalonians 2:13: “When ye receive the Word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the Word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” Surely, a person can preach the Word to me, but no one is able to put it into my heart except God alone, who must speak to the heart, or all is vain; for when he is silent, the Word is not spoken. Hence no one shall draw me from the Word which God teaches me.

Of this I must be as certain as two and three make five, for this is so certain, that if all the councils would say otherwise, I know they lie. Again, that a yard is longer than a half a yard is certain, even though all the world denied it, I still know that it cannot be otherwise. Who shall determine this for me? No one but the truth alone, which is so entirely and wholly certain, that no one can deny it.