Territorial Bloggings

The whole Issues, Etc. debacle keeps rolling along & picking up steam. I’m not going to try to summarize things here, one because it’s too big & wide ranging for me to pull it off, and two because I think most of the folks who read my stuff are already plugged in to the best sites.

I will say this: Largely because of these three posts

• Issues, Etc. and the Ideology of Hybelspongism
• About that letter to the editor, President K.
• BREAKING: Political motives exposed

I think that we’re getting very close to the point where we will be unable to use rank incompetence as the best-construction explanation of events. Treachery is fast becoming the only feasible explanation, as sad as that is to contemplate.

I hold no illusions that this will cause some grand reformation of the LCMS. It’s too big a corporate entity, with too many folks who depend on (and believe in) it, to go away. This whole sordid tale, however, might just serve a good purpose in that it will open the eyes & hearts of enough folks (lay and clergy) so that good, salutary organizations like the Augustana Ministerium & the Augustana Confraternity can gain critical mass.

-ghp