“If The Lord Wills”

Back on December 9, 2019 LCC Board Chair Arnold Drung posted an article to the Candian Lutheran site titled "If the Lord Wills: A Report on Synodical Planning." The choice for this passage is based on the following paragraph: We remember the words of James 4:13-15: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we...

The LCC / ASC Settlement and the Cost of Litigation

In the article My Response to the ABC District BOD Letter Regarding the ASC Settlement / Part 2 of 3 I posited some cost/benefit reasons why ABC District et al decided to settle vs going to trial. Recently I came across a video blog by David Freiheit - a Quebec based lawyer that does video blogs...

ABC District BOD Letter to Members Regarding the ASC Settlement

I've just received a copy of a letter the post-restructured ABC District BOD sent to the membership about the LCC - ASC Settlement. The original copy of the letter is here and my backup copy is here. The copy I have is a graphical image so I typed the letter contents in this blog post by hand -...

Whoever Causes One of These Little Ones Who Believe in Me to Sin….

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. “Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary...

My Thoughts about the LCC – ASC Settlement

To start - here's the timeline of the ASC's actions along with the documentation that was released along the way. I've made backup copies of all the original documents and provided links to them 'just in case'. ASC: Alberta Securities COQB: AB Court of Queens Bench ABC BOD: ABC District Board of Directors 2018-06-27 ASC...

Higgerty Law Weighs in On LCC – ASC Settlement

Higgerty Law represents that CEF depositors in their representative action against the various respondents to the ABC District CEF implosion. Today they posted the following statement to their Lutheran Church Representative Actions web page in response to the LCC ABC District - ASC Settlement. September 17, 2019 The hearing by Alberta Securities Commission (the “ASC”)...

The ABC Board of Directors’ Conflict of Interest With Its Membership

In a previous article I wrote about a letter sent by the ABC District 2018 BOD Chair Pr Kubke to the ABC District membership. Something about the letter got me thinking so I went back and reviewed some of the 2015 ABC District BOD's actions and compared them with the letter Pr Kubke sent.  I...

This site can’t be reached

Recently I read a note from SP Teuscher to the Synod members that looked like grist for the mill for this blog, so I went to the Canadian Lutheran website to see if  I could find the article in order to link to it. This is what I saw:  Naturally I then tried the Lutheran...

LCC BOD Town Hall Tonight / May 23, 2019

Redeemer Edmonton just posted the following notice to their FB page: Speak your mind and be heard at the LCC Town Hall Meeting tonight. All are invited to attend. Venue is Concordia Lutheran Church in Mill Woods (5420 19a Ave NW); meeting starts at 7pm. Synod President Timothy Teuscher, BOD Administrator Dwayne Cleave, and Regional Pastor Robert...

Synod BOD Town Hall Meeting: My Response to Carl Vehse

In the article 'LCC Synod BOD Channels "Lucy with the Football"'  I discussed how the Synod BOD stated they were holding a town hall meeting at Leduc AB before changing the meeting format to what was in effect an after-church social with no advance warning. "Carl Vehse" commented on that post as follows. My response...