Is This Still Christianity? ELCA's Largest, Failing Seminary Celebrates Pagan Worship of Their Father Mother Below

Is This Still Christianity?:

GJ - Cute, Gene Veith, so why does the LCMS continue to work with ELCA when ELCA's own Braaten Jenson Dogmatics textbook has denied the articles of faith for 30 years? This service is no surprise after decades of arrogant rejection of the Word, plus LCMS-WELS indifference to that fact.




"There is Christianity.  There is liberal Christianity, which stretches the term considerably.  There is heretical Christianity, which is outside the pale but at least claims to still be Christian.  At what point, though, does a religious expression cease to be Christian altogether?  Consider the “Transgender Day of Remembrance” Communion service at the ELCA’s Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, on November 15.

You can watch the service here, on YouTube.  If you don’t want to watch all 59 minutes, I’ll give you just a few highlights.

Instead of beginning “in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,” two of those terms being construed as sexist, the invocation in this service is “in the name of Creator, Christ, and the Holy Breath.”

There is a confession of sins, but it expresses our failure to be wild and free.  The absolution tells us that all shackles are broken and that God accepts us as we are.

The service avoids male terms for God–He, Him, Father, Lord–but then goes all in for gendered language to refer to God.  When it comes time to say the Lord’s Prayer, it is addressed to “Our mother who art in heaven.”

God is thereby transgendered!

We could go on, but let’s stop there."

If you blokes are so superior to ELCA,
then why do you work with them?
Why have you not ex-communicated Mark Jeske, the Judas goat
leading your people into ELCA?

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Luther Seminary makes deep cuts to faculty and staff amid tough times for theological schools. 2013 Story.

Luther Seminary makes deep cuts to faculty and staff amid tough times for theological schools:



"At first, Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., could see itself as exempt from the economic forces shaking seminaries and theological schools nationwide. Luther is the biggest seminary for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. Among its peers, it had a reputation for being innovative. Individual donors continued to give, and its local area -- in one of the country’s most Lutheran states -- was supportive.

Last fall, though, it all came crashing down. Enrollments were dropping. The seminary found it was running multimillion-dollar deficits, spending down its endowment and relying on loans. In December, its president, the Rev. Dr. Richard Bliese, resigned, as the seminary’s board began to look at options to trim at least $4 million from the seminary’s $27 million annual budget.

The results were announced last week: layoffs for 18 of its 125 staff members, many effective within a few weeks; the voluntary departure of 8 of 44 faculty members at the end of the academic year, who will not be replaced; the termination of a master’s program in sacred music; and the decision to no longer admit Ph.D students for at least three years."

LSTC dedicated their rotary composter to
the service of God's Creation. Waitaminute -
they deny Creation. I would have fallen out of my
chair laughing.

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St. Ignatius by the Creek may graduate
its entire study body at once.

ELDONA's seminary enrollment is holding steady at one (1).

The Failure of ELCA Lutheran Seminaries Should Raise Many Questions in the UniSynod

 Cho was especially successful in obtaining a prison cell
for himself and his son.

I spent a long time unraveling the history of Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, ELCA. They ended up with a total of 91 MDiv students this year!

ELCA has lost 2/3rds of their seminary enrollment since starting, which explains why three seminaries (Southern, Pacific, Trinity) are "thrilled and excited" about becoming departments of a college - and why Luther is "thrilled and excited" about selling off land.

The ELS-LCMS-WELS seminaries have the same retail shrinkage problem. The leaders treat new ministers like dirt, so why would anyone send sons to seminary, daughters into servitude for the faculty's fat salaries?

 A violent storm hit the ELCA convention church in 2009,
not unlike the storm that knocked out the lights when the pope was declared infallible.

We can see that the ultra-radicals took over ELCA after the 2009 convention vote, when the storm knocked over the cross at the church where they feigned worship. Even the liberal bishops were offended so they that they left the ELCA they helped to establish.

Most readers have no idea about the total domination of the ultra- Left in ELCA. Those who were demanding power are now the seminary faculty members, bishops, and seminary presidents.

Likewise, many do not know how close behind the LCMS, WELS, and ELS are. Thrivent is wrapped around the UniSynod, handing pennies to the congregations and giving them trinkets, offering chunks of money to each sect to control. Harrison admitted to $50-60 million a year total from Thrivent, which buys a lot of management, meddling, and process. A pastor might say, "Don't let me catch you selling cookies in the narthex, because Thrivent already owns our soul."

Doubtless Missouri, WELS, and the ELS have as much excess seminary capacity as ELCA - for all the same reasons: radicalism, mediocre teachers, and Unitarian dogma. Watch for more "thrilled and excited" announcements from St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Mequon, and Mankato.