When I could still get foundation information for free, a few years back, Jeske was getting $120,000 per year - plus benefits - for part-time work on the Thrivent board.Lutherans may be the only large denomination financed by one (merged) insurance business. AAL was more for LCMS-WELS, but Lutheran Brotherhood was for the LCA. However, both worked to be promoted by the other side of Lutherdom, knowing full well they could unite them by default through funding, conferences, seminars, and selling annuities to Grannie (Irrevocable Gift Trusts - a cool way to grab the entire estate, or big chunks of it, by giving Grannie high interest returns for a few years. The Planned Giving Counselor gets a commission on the sale, so he will say about anything to close the deal. "Yes, Matilda, this will benefit your Church!" - wink - meaning your synod.)
Thrivent lives by the Golden Rule - Whoever has the Gold makes the Rules.
Thrivent salesmen get the church membership lists from friendly members and pastors - and have a golden opportunity to say, "Thrivent gives so much year to your parish if you buy from us."
Since ELCA has the highest income and most educated members, plus the largest total membership, they are given special attention. Thrivent has not opened their books to me, but I have seen how they scatter their benevolent funds all over Creation. They give the impression of helping the congregation but they want the big ticket insurance packages, annuities, and investments. Why not give a metro orchestra $5,000 to have a "sponsorship page" appear in their orchestra program? All the swells attend the orchestra, and they live longer as a group than ordinary workers. Minneapolis' orchestra got one such grant.
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| Where there is a will, there is a Planned Giving Counselor ready to shape it "for the good of the Church, Matilda." Thrivent bonus bucks go for Church Growth, women's ordination, and ELCA activism of the worst sort. |
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| Jeske obviously promotes women's ordination, but so does Professor Brug. Here is an ELCA pastor promoted through Jeske's Seibert Foundation fun money. His favorites also favor abortion on demand and other ELCA hobbies. |
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| "Brett, it is only going to get better. What Jeske accomplished in opening up WELS-LCMS to ELCA is the greatest possible blessing. There are no differences now. We only need to bring the laity up to date." |
ELCA Bishops and Presiding Bishop Liz Eaton.
You Look for Jeske's Monument? Look Around You!
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| "Where would we be without Jeske?" |
ELCA Women Bishops in 2019
- Elizabeth Eaton (2007)
- Wilma Kucharek (2002)
- Shelley Wickstrom (2012)
- Ann Svennungsen (2012)
- Tracie Bartholomew (2013)
- Suzanne Darcy Dillahunt (2013)
- Patricia Lull (2014)
- Barbara Collins (2016)
- Kristin Kuempel (2017)
- Katherine Finnegan (2017)
- Deborah Hutterer (2018)
- Patricia Davenport (2018)
- Idalia Negrón (2018)
- Laurie Skow-Anderson (2018)
- Sue Briner (2018)
- Lorna Halaas (2019)
- Laurie Larson Caesar (2019)
- Shelley Bryan Wee (2019)
- Regina Hassanally (2019)
- Constanze Hagmaier (2019)
- Laurie Jungling (2019)
- Susan Candea (2019)
- Leila Ortiz (2019)
- Ginny Aebischer (2020 SC)
- Amy Current (2020 SE IA)
- Tessa Moon Leiseth (2020 E ND)
- Amy Odgren (2020 NE MN)
- Joy Mortensen-Wiebe (2020 SC WI)
- Laura Barbins (2020 NE Ohio)
- Anne Edison-Albright (2020 E Cenral WI)
- Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl, the second female bishop in the ELCA, is serving a one-year interim in the Northeastern Iowa Synod this year, bringing the Conference of Bishops to 31/66 (47%) women this year.
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| Pastor Mike - 2019 Photo of ELCA Women Pastors Who Happen To Be Bishops I thought they campaigned and people voted and they won the election, but I guess it just happens. |
