The Nihil Rule

  (Note: This is not character assassination or an eighth commandment violation. I take her words and actions in the kindest possible way by taking her at her word. Dr. Prince is a very smart woman. She's achieved a Ph.D., she was Vice Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, she was an ambassador to the UN. Clearly, she's smart. She's also a public figure and can speak for herself.  I simply take Dr. Prince at her word. The WELS has made her a public figure  by giving her top billing at the WELS Lutheran Leadership Conference, and the views she holds to are expressed in the slides from her presentation  and in the materials handed out during that presentation . This content was presented to pastors, called workers and laymen with Synods' approval. This is the necessary context to have that discussion. Prior to the conference I shared these notes with my Pastor, Council and conference leadership. No one questioned their factuality although they dis...

  This was the prayer of the church for the opening worship service at the WELS Lutheran Leadership Conference. The opening day was also the observation of MLK Day in the US. More woke. Let's translate from the Woke: unwilling to walk on the path of our brothers and sisters - Allyship taken up with our own tradition - Perhaps the slide below sheds some light? (Dr. Fisher, keynote speaker at the conference) Whether it is a racial reference (white culture prevents sharing the Gospel with non-whites) or a liturgical one (that is, the old stodgy liturgy is not missional) our heritage somehow impedes the Holy Spirit... unwittingly - Unconscious Bias make us lights that expose racism  - Anti-racists ; that is, being colorblind is not good enough. The same Rev. Dr. Fisher presided as liturgist a service at Wisconsin Lutheran High School where the pastor  delivered a sermon linking Matthew 5:14-16 to the need to be antiracist .  I think the ultimate litmus test of the ide...

  These cards were handed out during a panel discussion at the WELS Lutheran Leadership conference. Let's translate from woke to english: “Isolate Race” means you speak “As a white male, I feel…" “Social Construction and Multiple Perspectives” means standpoint epistemology  “Working Definition” means you can call things whatever you like as opposed to rigid definitions like “nationality” and “ethnicity” “Whiteness” – to quote Robin DeAngelo “it’s not a question of if racism occurred, but how did race manifest itself in this situation.” These cards come from a consultancy named Courageous Conversations, run by a man named Glenn Singleton. He also wrote a book by the same name. Formerly he ran the for-profit Pacific Educational Group , a "left-leaning educational consulting firm formed by Glenn Singleton in the 1990s that contracts with K-12 school districts in 20 states across the United States to provide consulting and training services around racial equity and critical r...

"As pastors this has to be coming out in our sermons. How can we not be applying the word of God to a society which, in the name of wokeness, is actually urging and funding and advertising and teaching for our children to have parts of their bodies amputated, to be flooded with hormones, to suit the ideology that says even an underage child should be able to choose what sex they are going to have? How can we not speak out against that? How can we not pray mightily for God to work contrition and repentance if not judgement on that sort of thing ... To be confessional means to speak according the content and, I think, the pattern of our Lutheran confessions, so we not only confess based on what we believe based on the inerrant words of Scripture and all that doctrinal stuff in the creeds and the Apology and the catechism and so forth. But we also are taught to go on and say, and as a result of the Biblical doctrine, we oppose this. We are against that. We do not agree with this. We ...