Issues Etc. “Making the Case” Conference

Issues Etc. is an on-line podcast for the thinking Lutheran. Every year they have an in-person conference on a number of interesting topics for people to listen and learn from, and a chance to fellowship with other Lutherans. This year they've gone virtual (sound familiar?) - and there's still time to join the conference! Right...

LCC Wants To Hold an On-Line Convention / Part 4 of 4 – Conclusion

With respect to the special convention to amend the Statutory Bylaws, my thinking is if sufficient trust exists within the membership, there is no need for a virtual special convention to make this change. Here's why. Bylaw 9.07 specifies how many people a convention need to transact business: 9.07 A quorum for a Convention shall...

LCC Wants To Hold an On-Line Convention / Part 3 of 4

Next - while an on-line meeting may seem to be a "cure-all" for the question of holding a safe meeting, they come with problems of their own. I watched part of the 2017 broadcast and as an information-delivery mechanism that worked well. One could see the delegates in their in-person interaction, going to a microphone...

LCC Synod in Convention: Lightning Round

Greetings fellow LCCers! Ordinarily I'd let my 4-parter on Synod's convention publish under the original one-a-day schedule and then work on some other topics I have sitting in my queue.  Then I got some comments to part 1 that resulted in a post I felt important enough to publish in a "lightning round" post. Parts...

LCC Wants To Hold an On-Line Convention / Part 2 of 4

Moving to the normal convention, the Statutory Bylaws mandate a convention every four years so one has to be held in 2021. The Board can't amend the Bylaws to change the date, conventions need a long lead time to arrange, the way the pandemic is unfolding makes the feasibility of a Fall 2021 in-person convention...

LCC Wants To Hold an On-Line Convention / Part 1 of 4

Warning - dry administrivia parsing of constitutional minutia ahead.... The Covid19 pandemic has turned life as we know it rather topsy-turvy, and the church has found itself face to face with a number of issues it hasn't had to face before - in person vs remote services, is remote communion a thing, and the like....

CEF/DIL: Monitor’s 38th Report – Update

In my prior post "CEF/DIL: Monitor's 38th Report" I surmised that this report pertained to an upcoming court case. I now believe that analysis is inaccurate because if you look at the report, it's dated Nov 26, 2019. My guess is that this report was originally generated and submitted to the Court last fall /...

CEF/DIL: Monitor’s 38th Report

Just when I turned in for the night, my alerting system told me Deloitte'd published their 38th report to their website.  This report was created to support a forthcoming application to the Court, as I'd discussed in "CEF: Deloitte Calling!" This report pertains to the Representative Actions and not a future distribution. Hopefully that'll appear...

LCC’s Six-Month Financial Situation

LCC recently posted a six-month report of their financial situation along with a bulletin insert which details Synod's work together with the six-month financial report. The following table has Synod's financial numbers for the first six months along with some questions that came to me as I was writing this up. Be warned, it's not...

CEF: Update from Deloitte

Recently "Repicheep" on the CEF Investor's Forum asked Deloitte where things were given that the parsonage lot and the Tuscany properties since both been sold and the funds were still waiting to be distributed. Joseph Sithole at Deloitte responded as follows: The Alberta securities commission settlement is the reason why the final distribution has been delayed....