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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 11th, 2009
I call out the Rev. Mark Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, for false teaching. A respected colleague in the ELCA made me aware of the latest evidence of this fact by pointing me to Bishop Hanson’s December 6 videotaped, virtual “Town Hall” meeting, which you may view here. Another colleague [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2009
Threatening an already fragile worldwide Anglican Communion, on December 5 the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected Canon Mary Glasspool, a lesbian, as suffragan bishop for the diocese. Canon Glasspool becomes the second openly gay bishop in the PECUSA after V. Gene Robinson, who was consecrated bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
Canon Glasspool is the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2009
The Evangelical Lutheran Church still struggles to free itself from its bondage to the Twentieth Century Project and from the shackles of fundamentalism and social conservatism. Which is really a shame, when you think about it. The treasures of the Evangelical Lutheran Church are far, far richer than the church-sounding secular arguments we’re so accustomed [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2009
Dr. Judith Reisman: “Sexual beings” is “direct Kinsey fallout”
This morning, I contacted Dr. Judith Reisman by e-mail, asking her if she knew the provenance of the term “sexual beings.” Dr. Reisman has spent a considerable part of her life exposing the fraudulent statistical data Kinsey used in support of changing sexual mores during the 1930s-50s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2009
The recent hoopla trickling down from the ELCA’s General Assembly occurring this week in Minneapolis over the adoption of Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, as well as a revision of clergy expectations for rostered leaders in that church body, has renewed my interest in how my own denomination, officially (or rather, semi-officially) deals with the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2009
Successful Evangelical author Dr. John Piper is pastor for preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. From his Desiring God Web site:
I saw the fast-moving, misshapen, unusually-wide funnel over downtown Minneapolis from Seven Corners. I said to Kevin Dau, “That looks serious.”
It was. Serious in more ways than one. A friend who drove down to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 20th, 2009
Below is the report offered by Central Lutheran Church (ELCA), the Minneapolis church damaged during the ELCA’s Churchwide Assembly. I’ll let the photo of Central’s cross ripped from its steeple speak for itself. Of course, God didn’t do this because He no longer does the weather. (For Pittsburgh Pirates fans, He apparently no longer does [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2009
According to the ELCA’s The Lutheran and other sources, at approximately 6:00 p.m. the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted 66.67% in favor of Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, its social statement on sexuality that affirms same-sex relationships. A vote on ministry expectations and standards, i.e., whether clergy living in “committed” same-sex relationships may remain [...]
Morpheus to Neo:
This is your last chance. After this, there is no going back. You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.