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Thumbnails of the Dwindling ELCA Seminaries -
"Supported by the Richard Hay Barkalow Fund managed by Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing®"
ELCA is in the property selling mode of institutional meltdown.
Gettysburg - merged with Philly to form the oddly named United Lutheran Seminary - just sold a chunk of the campus to the town library.
Luther Seminary in St. Paul has sold off property.
Southern Seminary merged with a college campus.
Trinity Seminary also merged with a college campus.
Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago sold their pipe organ to Catholics and packed up to rent some space at a Chicago Roman Catholic campus.
Pacific Seminary sold their unique campus to a Muslim school and went downhill, literally, for office space.
Wartburg Seminary in Iowa got a large gift. They have full-time online seminary students who "do ministry" locally. Probably all of the seminaries do that to pump up their statistics.
The ELCA is trying hard to maintain the seminary names, lest anyone notice the rapid, nation-wide sell-off of properties. I noticed the change in seminaries at the ELCA level, but one must give credit to their leaders. ELCA has seen the radicals completely take over their synod, just as WELS and Missouri have let the Church Growthers take over their own abusive sects.
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