Doing the Business of the Church
Posted publicly on FB. Posted in its entirety. ANO FAREWELL MISSOURI by Rev. Richard Anton Bolland The first thing I'd like to address to the Missouri Synod before I leave her is my sincere gratitude. What I mean by that is my deep gratitude for the last 60 years of my life having been grounded... Continue Reading →
Reading the convention workbook has turned up some interesting tidbits - but I never anticipated finding this report. "Due to an oversight as a result of the restructuring of our Synod at the last convention, current provisions in the 2017 Handbook for the number of memebers on the Commission on Adjudication do not meet the... Continue Reading →
When the whole ABC District debacle debuted in Jan 2105, depositors that'd trusted the Lutheran Church with their funds were treated rather shabbily - good information wasn't forthcoming, District officials misrepresented what had actually happened, District struck a Task Force to investigate what happened and when the task force issued its first report, disbanded the... Continue Reading →
On Jan 5, 2015 DP Schiemann misled the public by declaring a “sufficient cash flow shortage” as opposed to "we took your money, put it in some speculative real estate / business ventures, told everyone their money was safe, and then we ran out of depositor funds." Today my webpage monitoring software "bing"ed to let... Continue Reading →
The following update was just posted to the Sugden McFee & Roos LLP webpage. Update: December 8, 2021 NOTICE OF PARTIAL SETTLEMENT APPROVAL A Partial Settlement has been approved by the Court Sugden McFee & Roos LLP, Class Counsel for the DIL Representative Action Class Members, is pleased to advise that Mr. Justice Rooke ACJ... Continue Reading →
Hi Gang - Yes, I've been gone for a bit. Repeatedly pointing out LCC's ongoing and unrepentant bad behavior has gotten rather tedious so I've been working on other things. However - when news like this comes up, I had to fire up the old editor to get the word out. First - Sage Properties... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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