Reasonable men sometimes do unreasonable things in the heat of passion. I continue to be troubled by the abrupt and clandestine nature of the cancellation of Issues, Etc. The whole affair seems so sloppily handled. No notice or warning. Holy Tuesday. Web site down, web site up, web site down again. No replacement programming. Ill-prepared, evasive public statements. Treasurer out of the country and not consulted. Board for Communication Services not consulted. The military has a term for this: FUBAR.
This is not the way a well run institutional machine operates. Ducks are in a row, not waddling and quacking all over the place. Communications are in order. Actions are planned. The story is straight and transparent.
Could this have been a crime of passion? We know that decisions regarding the future of KFUO were forthcoming in May or August at the Board of Directors. But did someone get their button pushed and jump the gun? I've read on some comment lines that the March 5 show with Dr. Louis Brighton on "Women Pastors and Gnosticism" was particularly "lively," as was, I'm sure, the March 9 interview with the Rev. Matthew Harrison on "Women's Ordination" and the new book he edited on the topic.
Could these shows have pushed someone over the edge to the point that ordinary procedure was abandoned? Was this an act of anger and outrage over a show that was an obstacle to the "vision"? Is this why things seem so disorganized?
Speaking of Pr. Harrison, someone needs to keep a watchful eye on him. He could be next. He's the guy who runs the hugely effective Human Care-World Relief over at 1333 Kirkwood Ave. He's a known thorn in the flesh to the current administration. I'll bet you a shot of Patron the book he edited goes off the shelf for a second round of "doctrinal review" in the way of Concordia.
wmc
Monday, March 31, 2008
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3 comments:
You make some excellent comments, Pastor.
I had a dream last night that I was in a church that had a female leader. She wasn't preaching but in the fog of the dream, I seem to recall thinking that this was somehow wrong. My dreaming smarts couldn't figure it out.
Now, dreams are just that....dreams. But I couldn't help thinking that it was weirdly tied to those shows you mentioned with Dr. Brighton and Pr. Harrison.
I listened to those two shows, and while I agree with what they said, I actually learned quite a bit that I didn't know. What I believed before, I believed without substantiation. Listening to them gave me the reasons for believing that way (exactly the purpose of those shows...and Issues, Etc as a matter of fact!!). I also remember thinking, at the time, that what they said probably puts an alcohol wipe on the exposed nerve of some pastors/congregations/denom's that are starting down the slippery slope of liberalism and CGM.
I think you're on to something...
Pastor, you made a comment in the last sentence about the new version of the Book of Concord. Please explain. Thanks.
Shortly before my daughter's confirmation on Palm Sunday, she had a dream that Rev. Kieschnick had forced the synod to embrace a doctrine that mandated pizza be served at Holy Communion. In her dream, she went to see Rev. K. personally, catechized him sternly, and he then put things back the way they were.
Dreams are indeed just that....dreams. But then again, though my daughter won't be able to be there, maybe the youth attending the Higher Things conference in St. Louis could pay someone a little visit while they're there.
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