Luther Quest Author Asks: What’s Going on in Lutheran Church-Canada?

Every once in a while an author on another site will notice my little blog, comment on something I've written, and add a few thoughts of their own. Recently Rick Strickert over on Luther Quest cited my article "LCC East District Board Meeting, March 12-13 2018". What his article didn't get quite right was to the...

Restructuring: You Can’t Do That!

December 14, 2017 Canadian Lutheran posted an article pertaining to the Synodical Constitution. In this article I'll discuss the following documents that were posted to the website: An Executive Summary on Constitutional Amendment Ratification A detailed letter to congregations explaining the changes The final draft of the Synodical Constitution as amended A Comparison Document showing...

A Discussion of Stahlke’s 95 Thesis – Part 4 / Conclusion

This article continues the discussion of Dr Stahlke’s 95 Thesis. An introduction and overview of the series is here. The overall division of these posts are: The Establishment of Authority (Part 2) LCC and its Operation (Part 2) A Sudden Change in Course (Part 3) The Working Group Proposal vs the Articles and Bylaws (Part 3) Questions, Questions,...

A Discussion of Stahlke’s 95 Thesis – Part 3

This article continues the discussion of Dr Stahlke's 95 Thesis. An introduction and overview of the series is here. The overall division of these posts are: The Establishment of Authority (Part 2) LCC and its Operation (Part 2) A Sudden Change in Course (Part 3) The Working Group Proposal vs the Articles and Bylaws (Part 3) Questions,...

A Discussion of Stahlke’s 95 Thesis – Part 2

In Part 1 I discussed some terms not commonly used among the laity, and in this post I'm going to begin a review of Dr Stahlke's thesis. Dr Stahlke's original document consisted of 95 Thesis - what follows is my "Readers Digest Condensed Version." I then broke the document up into sections and will add my...

A Discussion of Stahlke’s 95 Thesis – Part 1

Earlier this week Dr. Les Stahlke - the consultant hired by LCC's CCMS to assist it with restructuring the current District / Synod bodies into one overall whole - posted a document titled "95 Theses for the Re-formation of Lutheran Church-Canada" to the Synod 2017 Convention site. You can read the original article here, and...