Doing the Business of the Church
The season of pumpkin spice has passed, our US friends are looking forward to turkey day, and then we'll be inundated with Christmas music and advertising until Christmas Day. In the meantime matters are still proceeding on between the CEF/DIL defendants and the ASC. Since the ASC announced that they would be proceeding with this... Continue Reading →
The ABC District has updated their District Convention web page with the convention proceedings document. Included in the update is a historical overview of District's history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0Meu1wRrA&feature=youtu.be The video acknowledges some of the damage that was done by CEF/DIL, sadly it also repeats the "funding shortfall" line it asserted back in Jan 2015 and has been repeating ever... Continue Reading →
Update 2018-10-18: Christopher Pelletier, LCC's Director Communications, left a comment on this post indicating that ping-backs have been restored. I've verified that such is the case and I thank Chris for his prompt action. I've been writing this blog for a while, and per my usual practice of citing the sources of my material, I... Continue Reading →
When the whole CEF / DIL fiasco became public back in Jan 2015, it was only a matter of time before the various government regulators weighed in on the matter. The first to publicly show their hand was the ASC - they investigated, documented what they found, determined their case, published their list of allegations,... Continue Reading →
The "eyes and ears" of the court for a CCAA proceeding is Deloitte and they have a web page where they track their progress as the ABC District situation is being worked through. On Oct 1, 2018 they posted their 36th report to update where things are. In summary: The Sage Application to resolve the... Continue Reading →
Andreas @ Sola Gratia's been tracking the ABC affair for quite some time - spending untold hours talking to people, writing articles about what he's learned, and doing his best to inform the church what's going on. In his latest article Andreas recounts the nuts and bolts of the ASC allegations that the District BOD... Continue Reading →
Every Sunday when a Lutheran takes communion the penitent may say something like this "I, a poor miserable sinner, do hereby confess that...." and the rattle off a list of all the various offences they've purportedly committed since the last time they took communion. I'm thinking that maybe that's the most Christian way out for... Continue Reading →
This article is reviewing a letter by District President Schaeffer to the members of the ABC District. Part 1 covered the introduction and the three major points of the letter, Part 2 covered the closing part of the letter, and this article will have some closing thoughts. Another small fact this letter leaves out is that the District President and... Continue Reading →
This article is reviewing a letter by District President Schaeffer to the members of the ABC District. Part 1 covered the introduction and the three major points of the letter, this article will address the closing paragraphs, and the concluding article will have some closing thoughts. In a complex financial situation as that faced by... Continue Reading →
