St. Mark, De Pere, received a princely sum for life-coaching from the Siebert Foundation.
They also received $50,000 in 2007 from Thrivent.
Thrivent salespeople like big congregations - more potential customers. They can say, "Buy a Thrivent policy, because we just gave your congregation 50 big ones."
Remember Peter Pan, the Church and Change man? Maybe they call him Peter Pan because he is a pan-denominational chaplain. He got $50,000 from Thrivent, too. He is on the FIC editorial board, just like Gunga Don Patterson. FIC is loaded with Church and Change people. That is obvious, because the name of the magazine has lost Lutheran in the title, unlike the other Lutheran groups.
On this particular Thrivent list I found four WELS congregations receiving grants, two of them Church and Chicanery parishes. That seems statistically slanted to the Left.
