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| This made a good graphic; I saw the extra s on Preus. Someone fixed it before the service. The speakers and singers wore masks until they spoke or sang. Then they remasked. |
ELCA Bishop Elizabeth Eaton spoke - a homiletics 101 ditty - no substance. She referred to 2009 but did not identify the significance.
Preus was for justice, but not for the Scriptures and the Book of Concord, if I am parsing the many speeches and sermons. He was a good guy. He encouraged people. He shaped the 20th century Lutheran Church. I am glad someone was willing to blame him.
The leaders of the service - speakers and singers - were mostly women.
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| Someone sang this song, which apparently relieved the preachers of speaking about Jesus. Justice and joy are delightfully vague replacements. |
Pastor Peter Nycklemoe, the senior pastor at Central, gave an icky sweet giggly address. His theological ineptitude focused on Jesus not saying heaven was a place, only that we would be with Him. That reminded me of the many ways LCA/ALC leaders put their rationalistic dogmatic stamp on the Scriptures.
Nycklemoe graduated from Luther Seminary, which has melted down faster than the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz.
As someone who escaped ELCA even before the merger, I find their jolly affirmation of justice galling. Now the radical Left owns the endowments, properties, and pension plans, everything but the Gospel.
