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| Olson, my classmate at Yale, found two jobs in a row eliminated at ELCA headquarters. He is now president of the failed seminary, Wartburg, which led the way in joint communion with the Reformed, conceding everything to the Reformed. |
VirtueOnline - News:
INDIANAPOLIS - One of the most important stories coming out of the 2012 Episcopal General Convention was the sight of a convention deputation, committed to the truth of Scripture and Gospel values, walking out of the House of Deputies and shaking the dust off their boots as they left the Indiana Convention Center to wing their way back to the South Carolina low country. At the same time, their bishop, Mark Lawrence, also walked out of the House of Bishops in solidarity with his deputation.
The dramatic stance for traditional orthodoxy came as a surprise to most Conventioneers who less than 24 hours before had put its official stamp of approval on same-gender blessing liturgies. That action was met with cheers and high-fives as the House of Deputies concurred with the House of Bishops to approve such heterodox liturgical celebrations.
True, the Convention's action was met with screaming headlines around the world about The Episcopal Church sanctioning gay marriage, yet the lone bishop and his entourage visibly protesting Convention's deed will go down in the annuals of history as a true act of courage. A "yea" vote on the floor of the House of Bishop or the House of Deputies was not an act of courage. It was a cowardly step by those who have become enamored by the clamor of the noisy LBGT crowd and who did not have the backbone to stand up against vice.
What South Carolina Bishop Mark Lawrence and his General Convention deputies - Canon James Lewis, Dean David Thurlow, Boylston Reid, Elizabeth Pennewill, and Lydia Evans - did took real courage - to get up in the face of evil and stand up for Christ come what may.
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GJ - The active Episcopalian bishops were protesting loudly and going to court against Queen Schori, their Presiding Bishop, long before ELCA woke up to the predations of its lavender lobby.
As far as I know, not a single active ELCA bishop staged anything like this walk-out. Instead, the retired bishops played it safe and later started their own denomination, the NALC, in partnership with the LCMC, which began in 1999.
The WELS and LCMS pastors talk big and manly, but they find numerous reasons to compromise, to forget, to overlook, to excuse, to shun the truth and reward error.
