LCC 2022 Convention: Commission on Adjudication Hasn’t Met Since 2017 Convention

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...

CEF/DIL: Refuting the Unofficial Party Line

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...

Decorated Canadian Veteran And Pastor: Trudeau Has Declared War On His Own People

Jeremiah 12:5 talks about how people that aren't up to a simple difficulties will be in trouble when real challenges come. LCC should've caught the ABC District CEF / DIL's fiasco before it metasticized and dealt with the inevitable result when it became public. It didn't, and as a consequence people who've been Lutherans for...

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...

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...

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....