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| Archbishop Elizabeth Eaton put her name on the vaccination card, definitely a turning point toward poor health and a questionable governmental panic. |
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| Eaton's pyrrhic victory put ELCA 100% in the danger zone. |
Charlie Sue was awake early today and ready to check out her backyard domain. We heard the distant thunder an hour ago, but it was more like the rumbling of a Thanksgiving meal, but without the food. Opening the back door had her looking tentatively and soon after... racing back into the house, waiting for a serious breakfast of Science Diet with some bacon bits. She is now cuddled among her three MyPillows, keeping her eye on me.
That reminds me of an evening outdoors in Phoenix where several dogs competed around the picnic tables for the food. I made sure a smaller dog could get a grilled hamburger. I hid it behind my back, but I soon felt the soft and gentle capture of my entire hand. No threats, no growls, just the firm resolve of the largest dog. It was not a good time to argue grilled hamburger vs. one surviving hand.
Phoenix has a lot of good qualities, especially in the sunny winter, but the July extremes are difficult to tolerate. What could motivate an entire, shrinking denomination to gather itself for an ELCA convention, which they now call "an assembly?" Imagine walking short distances in the late July afternoon, loud yelping because of the radiant baking concrete, pious admonitions to drink plenty of water, ambulances for the ambulatory.
More than half of the 1988 ELCA merger has disappeared - and not to LCMS or WELS or the Little Chapel on the Prairie. I listened to the Michigan ALC-LCA discuss the gay quota they were establishing while ELCA was formalizing the plan with lawyers. That blossomed in 2009, known for the lightning-struck cross and the demi-semi-outrage of the "conservative" bishops.
LCMS and WELS work in harmony with ELCA - Thrivent, US.AID, and who knows what shenanigans.
