Doing the Business of the Church
ASC's April Hearing Earlier this month the ASC held another hearing related to the upcoming panel hearing into alleged financial misconduct by ABC District and related people. Sources have it that this hearing was another attempt by a non-party group to delay the proceeding until some later date. When the ASC posts the result of... Continue Reading →
In the article 'LCC Synod BOD Channels "Lucy with the Football"' I discussed how the Synod BOD stated they were holding a town hall meeting at Leduc AB before changing the meeting format to what was in effect an after-church social with no advance warning. "Carl Vehse" commented on that post as follows. My response... Continue Reading →
On Jan 15, 2015 LCC ABC District shocked the Lutheran Church-Canada community when it declared a "sufficient cash flow shortage" and froze all withdrawals from its CEF and then DIL investment funds. District personnel later blamed a "perfect storm" of withdrawals, outstanding loans, and a lack of other investments that could earn money for the... Continue Reading →
If there's one thing that can be said for this whole CEF/DIL mess is that it's attracted a considerable amount of time, attention, and expenditures. There's accountants, lawyers, courts, and the mass news media that's involved in this, and a number of them maintain websites where they publish their various reports and updates. Since checking... Continue Reading →
In the Christian calendar major three events stand out - Christmas when Christ was born of a virgin in an animal's feeding trough, Good Friday when He took on the full punishment for the sins of all mankind for all eternity and willingly laid down His life in the process , and Easter when He... Continue Reading →
This is a repost of an article I published for Good Friday 2018 - it's as applicable now as it was then. ANO As one of my areas of interest is justice and injustice in a Christian context, it's easy to get frustrated about the church's inability to deal with clear violations of church teaching.... Continue Reading →
In an earlier article I wrote about an application made by a number of outside parties ot the ASC proceeding asking to delay the case until a representative action against the applicants had completed. As a not-a-lawyer blogger my article was written from that perspective. Now Steven Leitl - a lawyer that specializes in securities, insolvency,... Continue Reading →
After the Leduc meeting the LCC Synod BOD sent the following email to the Western Region LCC members. I've also included an article about the meeting published in the Canadian Lutheran. April 11, 2019 Via E-mail To All West Region Congregations and Pastors, The Board of Directors of Lutheran Church-Canada extended an invitation to the... Continue Reading →
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