tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post564368389758970575..comments2024-02-25T16:56:47.627-05:00Comments on Magdalene's Egg: New Game: "Name That Convert"Father Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-65344495282068121762010-05-14T12:32:55.197-04:002010-05-14T12:32:55.197-04:00A bit touchy, are we, Rod? Fine.
Let me say, for ...A bit touchy, are we, Rod? Fine.<br /><br />Let me say, for anybody who doubts it, that you are basically right. Basically.<br /><br />You're right, of course, about the 8th commandment, so let me clarify in the interest of charity. The STS isn't composed in its entirety of preening, self-important poseurs. It just has a lot of them, which when we come down to it could be said about nearly any organization. (Congress, anybody? The Egg's editorial board?) I really am sorry if I made it sound like a blanket description. But I won't retract it, either.<br /><br />You're also right about variation in styles of churchmmanship. Sorry if I offended your Haugean member. (Joking, for pity's sake.) Yes, it varies. But we both know it skews high, which is just what I said. <br /><br />I also know a couple of social liberals in the STS, and if you're nice I'll give you the secret list. Again, joking -- about the list. My point is that no organization of reasonable people consists in its entirety of people who agree about everything, and i take for granted that readers are sophisticated enough to assume this.<br /><br />As for "where did [I] get that idea, oh, wow," I can explain. Certainly the lineage isn't direct, so "daughter' may not be the best word. But the STS is a creature, rather more directly, of the 9.5 Theses. These, in turn, were first published in Lutheran Forum (November, 1995). So it was principally through the work of ALPB that most people became aware of them. And Theses-co-drafter Ron Bagnall was either the Forum editor or the editor-on-deck at the time, Louis Smith was a regular contributor (or even board member), etc. Beth Schlegel has since been a columnist. Etc. So I think I'll stick by that claim, as amended.<br /><br />Beyond this, I do hope you appreciate my essentially warm feelings toward the STS and its members. It may not be the self-congratulation that members of reform groups generally get from one another, but compare what I wrote here to my typical comments on, say, the New ALC.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-36236934339020355062010-05-14T11:39:13.722-04:002010-05-14T11:39:13.722-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-64923621887634509702010-05-14T09:48:03.429-04:002010-05-14T09:48:03.429-04:00I would offer that you take care in what you say -...I would offer that you take care in what you say - or write - about the Society of the Holy Trinity. I'm in it, and I was the organizing Dean of the Chesapeake-Potomac Chapter of the Society. We are a ministerium - and as such we offer mutual support for one another. We are a pan-Lutheran group as well. We are not political; and, in fairness, not everyone is as high church as I might be. Before any negative comments are made about "a bunch of preening self-important poseurs," go to the website (www.societyholytrinity.org) and then make comments that honor the Eighth Commandment - please! And by the way - the Society is not a daughter clique of ALPB - where, oh where, did you get that? Wow!<br /><br />Rod L. Ronneberg, STS<br />Fulton, MDAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09020363485933418757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-66388534945000429632010-05-12T10:24:35.909-04:002010-05-12T10:24:35.909-04:00Our Beloved Godfather (for some reason unable to p...Our Beloved Godfather (for some reason unable to post comments himself today) proposes a candidate: The Most Rev. Irl Gadlfelter, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church.<br /><br />Read all about it: http://anglolutherancatholic.org/churches/usa/<br /><br />Yeah, these folks look like a feasible entry. Rome could score like fifteen parishes this way -- what a coup.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.com