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Posted by Ichabod the Glory Has Departed at 5:57 PM
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More Anonymous Whining from the WELS Grapevine.
Wadda Bunch of Crybabies

Actually, this selfie by Katy Perry came up when I googled Tim Glende's images.


More Whining from the WELS Grapevine

If a person would "Google" the names of some of our current and retired seminary professors, for example, on the top of every list will be Ichabod entries. What if someone would want to get a part-time job in their retirement, or even leave the ministry and work full-time in a secular field. What would a potential employer find when he would "Google" the former pastor's/professor's name? Would he want to hire someone who's picture has been plastered all over the internet with insane captions? This guy Jackson has done loads of harm in many ways.



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GJ - The only thing that outrages WELS is the truth. They are not bothered by funding Planned Parenthood through Thrivent.

Working with ELCA does not annoy them, but if someone leaks the truth to this blog - horrors! Find the source and excommunicate him...or her.

Supporting another pan-religious organization - Mark Jeske, Inc - does not move them to post their outrage. One reason - they are afraid of retribution. Fear comes from lack of faith.

When a sect teaches against faith long enough, rationalism takes over completely. Every answer is rationalistic, from Mission/Vision statements to switching over to secular music and bombastic Babtist songs.

The death rattle can already be heard. All the Changers can get any call they want. Mark Schroeder takes care of them. Some get two calls at once - like heresiarch Paul Calvin Kelm. 

MLC protects the Changers from this blog by keeping the Evangelism Day list top secret.

Do WELS minders mind that Church and Changer Adam Mueller
cross-dresses with his council members at the congregation picnic
and has children put women's makeup on the men?
That is right out of Brain-Washing 101.

Posted by Ichabod the Glory Has Departed at 5:48 PM
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Tears Springing from My Eyes - WELS Documented Blog Comments Go Full Ichabod

WELS is a sect where DP Patterson throws drunken parties for women
as "spiritual retreats" and they bet on which newbie will puke her guts out first.
This is an abusive group where the seminarians grope each other under their choir robes, and Professor Tiefel smiles.
So yes, your fatuous accusations cause me fountains of tears -
tears of laughter.
http://welsdocument.blogspot.com/2015/01/friday-whats-new-in-synod-this-week_30.html?showComment=1422983851919

  1. I suppose I should thank those who have attempted to defend me on this forum, so "thanks!" Your kind words are appreciated, but completely unnecessary, I assure you. I could not possibly care less about those who make anonymous comments, or even use their names, who haven't the foggiest idea of what they're talking about. They do not hurt me, offend me, or even bother me. I don't give them a first thought, much less a second. They are entitled to their narrow and uninformed opinion - as is so typical with the so-called "progressives" in our midst. Everyone must have their identical opinion on everything, otherwise they launch into various kinds of vitriol and invective, and show their spiritual and emotional immaturity. On the other hand, I believe they can think and say and do whatever they want. I just wish they wouldn't call themselves "Lutherans," because that they are not - IMHO. But, that's just me. Y'all have a nice day!
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  2. Yep, this conversation made it on Ichabod already. See what I mean?
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  3. It made it on Ichabod. Highly likely once his name was mentioned. So what?

    He serves a purpose. Would I be as caustic as Ichabod? No, it tends to turn people off who might benefit if they listened. On the other hand excepting the dispute regarding UOJ and JBFA is there a problem with his theology? Is he truthful in his comments? Has he lied about anything on his website?

    So give me a break regarding Ichabod, it's an excuse.

    Eine arme Schaf
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  4. He's lied about a whole lot of things on his site. Besides, he also messed up on election. I can't believe Jackson is being defended on this site. He's been booted out of how many church bodies and congregations? His current church consists of himself and his wife. Wake up.
  5. [GJ - Our services have been viewed 10,500 times. Our members visit and attend our services, and we are doing an every member visit this spring with worship. How many of your lazy drunken WELS pastors can say that?]
  6. If turn off all the lights in the room and light a candle and say "Ichabod" three times while staring into a mirror at midnight... your face in the mirror will be replaced by a badly composed PhotoShop picture with a stupid and unfunny pun printed over your head.
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  7. Not trying to defend Ichabod; he can do that well enough on his own. The point I have been trying so inelegantly to make is similar to Joe Krohn's - discerning people will take what Ichabod says with a grain of salt as one should with most things on the web. The mythology that has sprung up around Ichabod and his reign of terror is a hundred times worse then the actual results. Are Pastor's told, like little children in some parts of the world, to be good or the Ichabod will get them? I don't understand the fear over an Ichabod copy and paste.

    Eine arme Schaf
  8. [GJ - Black Sheep, SP Mark Schroeder did threaten Engelbrecht with exposure about Ski on Ichabod, not that I needed his leaks to help me scoop everyone. So the threat is always there - the threat of telling the the truth, for once.]
Martin Luther College (WELS) men
like to sing girly songs and post them to YouTube.

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Bishop Heather Cook Accused of CUI - Consecration Under the Influence.
After DUI and Counseling. PB Did Nothing.
Cook Ran Down a Biker and Ran Away


PB Katie Schori, behind and to the left,
knew Heather Cook was Consecrating Under the Influence.
Schori did nothing.

After the Arrest, left; after Photoshop, right.

Bishop Sutton is on the extreme left, and
PB Schori is on the extreme right for once.
Both were negligent for ignoring Heather's boozy consecration.
The legal liability is almost infinite.

Bishop accused in cyclist’s death suspected of being drunk at installation festivities


By Michelle Boorstein February 2 at 10:51 PM  


The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland suspected that Heather Cook — now charged in the drunken-driving death of a Baltimore bicyclist — was drunk during her installation festivities this past fall, a new official timeline shows.
Officials with the diocese, which elected Cook its first female bishop last spring, have said for weeks that they knew before her election of a drunken-driving incident in 2010. However, they have declined to answer questions about whether they had any reason to be concerned about her drinking after she was elected — until the fatal accident in December.
The timeline, which the Diocese of Maryland said Monday it had added to its Web site, says the head of the national Episcopal Church was made aware that Cook may have been drunk during her installation celebration. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was the leader of the Sept. 6 service that consecrated Cook, or made her a bishop.
Bishop Eugene Sutton — who oversees Episcopalians in much of Maryland aside from the D.C. suburbs — suspected Cook was “inebriated during pre-consecration dinner,” the timeline says, “and conveys concern to Presiding Bishop. Presiding Bishop indicates she will discuss with Cook. Cook consecrated.”
The timeline says Bishop Clay Matthews, who works in the Episcopal Church’s Office of Pastoral Development, met with Cook in October. “Details confidential to only the Presiding Bishop’s office,” it says.
Efforts late Monday to reach the offices of Jefferts Schori and Sutton, as well as Cook’s attorney, David Irwin, were unsuccessful.
The Episcopal Church began investigating Cook after she was charged last month with manslaughter, drunken-driving, texting while driving and leaving the scene of the crime in the death of Thomas Palermo, a father who was out for a Saturday bike ride when he was hit by Cook. It’s not clear whether Jefferts Schori’s office is investigating.
Officials in the diocese have asked Cook to step down from her position as No. 2 in the region.
Officials in the dioceses of Maryland and Easton have said little since Cook’s arrest about what they said and did after the incident in 2010 — when she was pulled over in the middle of the night, driving on three tires and too drunk to complete a sobriety test. Sutton’s office has said that the diocese of Easton recommended her “without hesi­ta­tion or reservation.”
According to the Baltimore Sun, which obtained a transcript of Cook’s 2010 hearing before a judge in that case, she was at the time undergoing three different forms of counseling for drinking and had “voluntarily had an ignition interlock device installed in her car,” the piece said.
“I am regarding this as a major wake-up call in my life, and I’m doing things now that I was not able to do without this motivation,” Cook told District Judge John E. Nunn III, the Sun reported Jan. 31.
Thomas Palermo's young children have no father,
his wife is a widow.
Drunk drivers leave a lot of victims.

Posted by Ichabod the Glory Has Departed at 11:15 AM
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Second Wave of Edible Pod Peas - Crash into Spring Gardening with These Cold-Loving Veggies

Super Sugar Snap Peas - eat them raw or cooked.

We ran out of peas to plant along the fence, so I ordered another big envelope. It is good to try different types and also to plant some early and some later. Trying types is only a problem with corn, since it is wind pollinated and that affects the seed.

Peas are the ultimate way to break into spring gardening. Carrots maybe, peas always. The idea of waiting until Ash Wednesday to plant peas is strange, because that date changes so much from year to year, depending on the date of Easter Sunday.  That date varies by one entire month, from the earliest date in early April to the latest date in early May.

Here is the guideline for peas - Can you get them into the ground? Good, then plant, the earlier, the better. They love cold. LeSeur peas come from Minnesota, not Florida.

I am going to do more wide row planting. We will open up the mulch, throw a lot of seed in wide rows, cover them with mushroom compost, and tamp it down lightly. Then water. The fence will support the vines, and vines grab each other to climb the fence.

Peas will add nitrogen to the soil, open up the root zone with their new roots, create complex cells from the soil, water, and solar energy, flower and fruit.

Posted by Ichabod the Glory Has Departed at 7:19 AM
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Birds Confirm Their Need for Bathing on a Wintry Day



Yesterday morning was about 15 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the coldest all winter. I added water to the bird baths, but that froze right away. I put out cracked corn and the feeding began.

Later I took out more water, since the sun was shining brightly and the temperature was going up.

Soon the birds were splashing in all four baths at once. That is always hilarious in winter, because the birds all want to enjoy cleaning themselves and having fun. They push and shove and get in line again, just like too many kids with too little room in the swimming pool.

I keep one feeder just outside the bedroom window, which worked so well in Bella Vista. We could see purple finches, chickadees, and starlings stopping for some sunflower seeds. When cold nights are still threatening, bird feeding and bathing are both active.

The full moon rises today and the rest of the week will be 50 to 60 degrees in the afternoon.

When the birds feed, they do not just look for the food I put in various places. They walk around the yard looking for more, which is the bonus given when birds eat and bathe in one location. They are slow to trust anything new, but once their habits are established, they return to look.

Birds have diversities of gifts, not unlike the gifts of the Spirit. Instead of one species dominating a yard and eating only its favorite food, birds will establish territory for their species only and get along with the rest. Male cardinals will eat together until it is time to mate and establish a nest. Then one pair will enjoy a territory and drive off other cardinals.

The effect is to have a nest of each species in the yard - a line up of various birds at the feeders and baths. Of course, we draw from all over because this is an official Jackson Bird Spa, with all the amenities, from mulch and trashy plants to gourmet food and multiple baths. When the hummingbird vines and flowers are established, we will see them share in the bounty. They will enjoy the spritzing water from the aerial aqueduct, since hummers like to move in and out of spray to get their baths.

Flocking birds are a little different. Common sparrows and starlings arrive in a flock, feed, and go somewhere for shelter. In New Ulm we had a flock of sparrows come out of the Boston ivy together and feed on the flat roof, where bird seed tended to get wet and rot. A cold winter decimated the flock and I missed their garbage pickup duties. They always kept the roof clean.

Starling Murmuration



Starlings have enormous flocks here, so one evening at a Reformation picnic, we watched a better show than fireworks - starling murmurations, gigantic patterns in the sky from thousands of starlings forming and changing geometric shapes in their coordinated flight.

Controlling 100 jets from an aircraft carrier is a big job. Who can coordinate thousands of birds at once? That is why I do not engage the evolutionists in long debates. No one can answer that one question, apart from the Creator.

I want the starlings to feed on suet and seed, because they return for bugs and weed seeds. They do not drive out other species. We see in our yard:

  • Blue jays
  • Mourning doves
  • Rock doves
  • Sparrows
  • Cardinals
  • Purple finches
  • Chickadees.

The robin, harbinger of spring, is already active n Springdale.
Art by Norma Boeckler.


Posted by Ichabod the Glory Has Departed at 6:40 AM
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Monday, February 2, 2015

More Icha-flogging on a Blog Where I Do Not Post Articles or Comments.
WELS Documented


WELS Documented

  1. "Our first run-in"? Way to go, Rev. Father Spencer. The ink is hardly dry on the obituary and you are already speaking ill of the dead. Shame on you.
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  2. Those who knew Pastor Soukup knew him as a man who loved the message of the gospel so much that he wished everyone knew it and who did everything in his power to get people to hear that message. That, I'm pretty sure, was the driving motivation behind what he said in his "run-in" with "Father" Spencer. As usual, we see "Father" Spencer putting the worst construction on something that someone said.


    1. "This is the ultimate in cowardliness, to make accusations about someone publicly after they have died." --anonymous

       Nice job.
  2. Some of us don't want to get our reputations assassinated in your old buddy's blog, Joe, over on Ichabod.
  3. I can't help but get a mental picture when I hear "Ichabod" come up.

    It's like a western movie (High Plains Drifter comes to mind). The town is gathered to discuss how to get rid of the gunslinger who has them all scared. Then you hear the jingle of spurs coming down the boardwalk and someone whispers with eyes wide - "Ichabod" as they all turn towards the door, lips a quiver, wiping sweat from their brow (sic).

    It makes a funny mental picture wouldn't you agree? Rhetorical question so no need to answer. Of course I am in the crowd, though for vanities (sic) sake I like to think I am whispering "Search Engines" as a general pejorative rather than just singling out "Ichabod".

    Eine arme Schaf
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GJ - What started this tirade was Pastor Steve Spencer's comment that he and the late Pastor Paul Soukup had a different opinion about the effects of teaching the truth. That became a chance for the junkyard dogs - anonymously - to start biting and devouring.

I was not even on the page and--snap, bite, drool, snarl--they started on me. Watch them whine about being quoted, as if reading and quoting a blog is opening someone's mail.

"You're not too happy with Ichabod, Anonymous.
Maybe you should saddle up, sit down with him,
and tell him your sins.
I mean - his sins."

Posted by Ichabod the Glory Has Departed at 9:56 PM
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Too Cold and Too Bold in Gardening?

Use the Force - of Creation, Luke.


One reader is intrigued with my early planting of peas and sunflowers. Today we woke up to 15 degree temps here in NW Arkansas. Many times in January I was outside in a short-sleeved shirt, and I was used to getting the newspaper for our neighbor without the benefit of shoes. Dressing up means - wear shoes, clean sweats.

That January planting took place when we pulled back mulch from last fall and planted peas, then sunflowers along the back fence. That is easy when the mulch is placed in the fall. The ground stays soft, especially if lawn and weeds have been rotted by the covering. I learned that when I built a pine branch shelter for animals before the Minnesota winter. I did not see any wildlife there, but the area under the branched composted and became very soft for turning over.

The peas will do fine at 15 degrees. They can be planted in the fall, though many resist that because the seed is vulnerable to fungi and animals the whole time.

Spinach is easily started in the fall and continued in very early spring, since it likes cold (like peas) and attracts bugs, which dislike the cold.

This should not shock people, but city folk are often unaware of how much winter wheat is grown. Winter wheat is also planted in the late autumn and very productive from its enjoyment of spring rains.

Vigorous plants may host insects, but they shake off the damage by growing so fast. Seedlings attacked by insects can be seriously weakened, but beneficial insects, birds, and soil health will mitigate that problem.

Forget grocery store carrots, which are pretty good.
Carrots right out of the ground are delicious, sweet, and nutritious,
from baby seedlings - so cute - to full grown and dug up from the snow.
They are two-year plants, so they are not old and useless for eating until the second year.
Then they flower like their cousins - Queen Ann's Lace.

Next on my list is a second planting of peas, because they will grow before anything can. After that, a row of carrots will be planted. Carrots can be planted weeks before the last frost. Carrots can be kept in the ground into the winter, to sweeten them. In Midland I was never tempted to dig for carrots in the snow, but people think that is a great little adventure. I did grow kale and that can be harvested green from under the snow.

Let's think about that. Kale is so tough, it is still green under the snow. The texture has to be close to rubber, maybe tougher - and that is correct. But it is nutritious, like everything in the cabbage or crucifer family (crucifer for the flower - aka cole and brassica plants). The family is cold tolerant, even cold loving. Brussels sprouts, loved by gourmands like me, hated by city slickers, get better with a frost.


The taxonomy of common cruciferous vegetables
common namegenusspecific epithetCultivar group
HorseradishArmoraciarusticana
Land cressBarbareaverna
Ethiopian mustardBrassicacarinata
KaleBrassicaoleraceaAcephala group
collard greensBrassicaoleraceaAcephala Group
Chinese broccoli (gai-lan)BrassicaoleraceaAlboglabra Group
CabbageBrassicaoleraceaCapitata Group
Savoy cabbageBrassicaoleraceaSavoy Cabbage Group
Brussels sproutsBrassicaoleraceaGemmifera Group
KohlrabiBrassicaoleraceaGongylodes Group
BroccoliBrassicaoleraceaItalica Group
BroccoflowerBrassicaoleraceaItalica Group × Botrytis Group
Broccoli romanescoBrassicaoleraceaBotrytis Group / Italica Group
CauliflowerBrassicaoleraceaBotrytis Group
wild broccoliBrassicaoleraceaOleracea Group
bok choyBrassicarapachinensis
KomatsunaBrassicarapapervidis or komatsuna
MizunaBrassicarapanipposinica
Rapini (broccoli rabe)Brassicarapaparachinensis
Flowering cabbageBrassicarapaparachinensis
Chinese cabbage, napa cabbageBrassicarapapekinensis
Turnip root; greensBrassicaraparapifera
Rutabaga (swede)Brassicanapusnapobrassica
Siberian kaleBrassicanapuspabularia
Canola/rapeseedBrassicarapa/napusoleifera
Wrapped heart mustard cabbageBrassicajuncearugosa
Mustard seeds, brown; greensBrassicajuncea




Another reader is all set to plant, but her garden is under a foot of snow. We had two inches of snow predicted - accumulation! Oh no! I saw some flakes falling this morning, but not enough to make the car windshield white. Frost on the windshield has been a no-show all winter, with a few exceptions.

I am looking for bulbs to poke through the soil now, but the cold nights of February may slow that down quite a bit. We are usually a month ahead of the flowers in Midland, Michigan, where we once had six inches of snow fall in May.


I believe n God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth.

Posted by Ichabod the Glory Has Departed at 8:57 AM
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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Your Superbowl Halftime Entertainment - Blessed by the WELS Stuporstars:
Tim Glende and Ski

Tim Glende and Ski posed with Katy Perry,
the no talent Superbowl entertainment for 2015.
I hope she didn't sing one of her porn songs -
that would embarrass WELS, maybe.

I used to wonder why Glende and Ski were so enchanted with Katy Perry. Let's skip the first two reasons.

The third reason - she lip-syncs her songs and they lip-sync their copycat sermons.

Oh oh. She did go porno for the Superbowl:

"I thought it would be appropriate to draw blood tonight," tweeted the singer, who also sang excerpts from I Kissed a Girl and Teenage Dream during her set.
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