Diane Langberg Quote of the Day – Feb 26, 2021

https://twitter.com/DianeLangberg/status/1365402873610309634

Paying The Price Of Your Convictions

When the government announced a general lockdown ("two weeks to slow the spread" as the US gov't put it) people took it in stride because it's something the government did for our good. When shutdowns continued and brought with it the cessation of in-person services, I read a number of articles discussing pros and cons...

Twitter Quote of the Day – Feb 19, 2021

Peacemaking ministries whose theological frameworks were created w/o the input of oppressed and/or marginalized people aren't the ones you want when there's serious injustice or systemic abuse involved. Those situations demand a justice orientation, not a conflict resolution one. Sometimes conflict arises because equals disagree. They need conflict resolution. Other times, conflict arises because powerful...

CEF/DIL – Will There Yet Be Consequences?

I've written many articles about the lack of action by the various Synodical officials even in the face of an outright conviction by the ASC Securities. Today Rev Clifford wrote a post in the CEF Investors Forum that - at long long last the Synod Board of Directors has done something about the people involved...

Sage Shareholder Newsletter – Feb 2021

Sage has issued a new newsletter dated Feb 12, 2021. You can read the original here - following is my summary. Share Redemption - 587 shareholders asked to redeem ~$13M worth of shares which is way in excess of the $5.6M of available cash. The newsletter outlines the distribution of the share redemptions they were...

After Justice is Found

To date LCC has continued its policy of silence - acting like the events that led to CEF / DIL didn't happen or doing anything to console the victimes. Synod even allowed Pr Ruf - a convicted criminal - to receive a Call to another church. Ordinarily that's only allowed for clergy members in good...