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| Yale Professor Paul L. Holmer |
Paul Holmer described new ideas as popping up and then being flogged to death for the next 50 years. The singular idea emerges and people write about it, endlessly it seems. Once it has worn out its welcome, another idea emerges.
I seldom quote the "about" people because they have so little to say about the Christian Faith. In fact, they seldom have anything noteworthy to emphasize, except:
- Precisely how the synod - any synod - works.
- Shallow commentary about their pastoral buddies.
- Worship trends but never the Means of Grace.
- Their graduate work, which was then the end of studies...forever.
- How they might bring back the church members they chased away.
- The Best Bad Bible of the moment, combined with a total KJV blackout.
I was looking forward to the ALPB Forum Letter ending. Tragically, they are still publishing and have nothing to say. I paid for one year and now deeply regret it. They might have published an honest look at Carl Braaten's tedious High Church Unitarianism. Instead, I learned that a 24 year-old woman drove to Chicago - in her 72 Dodge - to attend a Braaten class. She was turned down. "I walked outside, found a place in the shade, and did what any other 24-year-old would do. I cried." She became a mini-seminary president and mini-seminary professor.
LutherQuest just did what few others would dare. They published a series of articles by the late Paul McCain. They failed to mention that LQ once used his posts from the Roman Catholic Encyclopedia, verbatim! except for some obvious edits that would have given away the source - nihil obstat. Ichabod kept publishing the truth and they finally stopped their second-hand plagiarism, which is against the law. No apologies came from the putative author of the "originals" borrowed or from the Cardinal himself, Jack Cascione.
