Puzzling Over the Purple Palace

 

Marvin Schwan, of Schwan Foods, might have paid for the swan serving as product placement, very clever. Marvin donated tons of money to the LCMS, WELS, and ELS. None of the officials were concerned about him dumping his wife for the wife of one of his executives.

The official name - International Center - is often replaced with its nickname - The Purple Palace. I visited it once or twice. I ran into one of the Church Growth guys going inside to meet with the district presidents, his pride gushing and overflowing. I wonder if he has added up the numbers since that time, or should I say "added down?" 

Purple pillars are pleasing to the plebes.
Matt the MDiv always teaches Objective Faithless Justification.

Two people wanted to know about the nickname Purple Palace. I volunteered to find some interior shots, and none showed up at first. The color is overwhelming, so it was tempting to give the expensive palace a nickname. Do not blame me. My sister-in-law thought it was very purple too. "No wonder it has that name!"

One LCMS pastor said the very expensive staff members, from their federation of groups put together to build it, were no longer filling the building. It only makes sense that increasing costs of everything are going to make people expendable over time. The Purple Palace is now 40 years old.

Does anyone else find it odd that the LCMS-WELS-ELS doctors of doctrine all fell down to kiss the feet of Marvin Schwan? Each sect is so fussy about the other two, but they are all one with the Big Bucks and cover-ups. 

OPM sounds like opium - Other People's Money. The three sects are hotter than Georgia asphalt for other people's money. I visited the newly built chapel at the St. Louis Seminary. The gift book had a full page for Marvin Schwan. Wasn't he a Bethany College alumnus and a WELS member? 

All the LCMS needs now is a bishop's mitre.

Christianity Today Publishes about Harrison's Disastrous Luther's Large Catechism. The Quotation from CT Is Printed in Purple Palace Purple. Elegant!

The cover of this campaign booklet was Photoshopped a bit, maybe the book was ghosted a bit, too.

From Christianity Today

"A Mighty Controversy Is This Lutheran Catechism

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) has resumed distributing its new annotated edition of Luther’s Large Catechism over the objections of some of the denomination’s most conservative members and pastors.

Luther’s Large Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications contains the unaltered text of Luther’s Large Catechism, a core Lutheran doctrinal statement, with 80 essays applying Luther’s ideas in modern society. The book is over 700 pages long.

Concordia Publishing House released the work in mid-January, but two weeks ago, LCMS president Matthew Harrison announced that he had asked the denominational publisher to stop distribution so they could “evaluate the comments and critiques received and revisit our doctrinal process.”

Critics raised concerns that some of the essays, which are not Lutheran doctrine, mishandle current issues like racial justice, human sexuality, and gun rights.

In an email to Christianity Today, Harrison described the controversy as a “handful of quotations were taken out of context to allege some conspiracy to import CRT, sexual ambiguity, and woke issues in general into the LCMS.”

By February 2, he had asked Concordia Publishing House to resume distribution."

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GJ -

Concordia Publish House has been selling bloated versions of many classic (formerly far better) Lutheran doctrinal books, virtually turning them into ELCA-friendly, Objective (Faithless) Justification promotions for Matt the Fatt's trendy pals.

 Installation for the popified Concordia Seminary president, St. Louis

 Harrison almost went full-ELDONA for this European incense fest.

The bombastic and whale-sized CPH commentary on Mark uses the fraudulent Codex Vaticanus, which in English means "The Pope is pulling your leg."