Monday, October 10, 2022

A Retired Pope Will Edit the WELS Magazine

Could the magazine get even more boring than ever? WELS and the dwindling CLC (sic) used to post their articles for a boost in Christian News. CN is now so soul-killing that anything copied from WELS might wake up the last few readers of CN - to discuss something more important than the infallibility of CFW Walther, the kidnapper.

Mirthless Mark Schroeder seems worried. The sect's Church Growth gamble was a bigger flop than the Edsel; many of us still remember that Ford beauty.

Fifty plus years ago, these clobber-heads conspired to make WELS a major customer of Fuller Seminary's expensive Church Growth nonsense. That was a prime example of the GA double-take they enjoy so much, smirking about their juvenile secret code. They denied up and down that there was such a thing in WELS. The great Wayne Mueller published that there was no such thing in their sect. 

How does Hartman's published confession of sin harmonize with Wayne Mueller's smirky denial? That reminds me of the unjust steward, who was very good at stealing and cooking the books. However, the parable is about working hard, not being a bald-faced liar.

Bivens, like Valleskey, gushed over Fuller Seminary (in his mortician style voice) when it was safe, and denied it when exposed. Anyone who said they went to Fuller Seminary was a liar!

Speaking of popes, Roger Kovaciny, who could have posed in papal robes, considered himself a pioneer in Church Growth. He specialized in ethnic jokes. Even utility poles fear him.



Pope's qualification is that he will carry out the synod's bizarre code of abuse-ministry so cherished by WELS. No, I do not know him. Hazing abuse (physical, emotional, sexual) is the foundation of WELS. One is either in it or extended the left boot of fellowship.  Just look over their overwhelming love for cross-dressing, enough to make ELCA rosy cheeked with jealousy. GA is not a part of WELS: it is WELS.

No one can top Donkey Basketball at the CLC's high-school-college-seminary.