Gottesblog

This presentation was given to the Michigan District in 2019.

Here is a Gottesblog post from 2013: “On Flags in the Sanctuary.”

In a public YouTube clip, he makes the claim that he has been denied the Lord’s Supper in Lutheran - presumably LCMS - churches, being prohibited from the Eucharist by Lutheran pastors, because he is black, and that this scenario has played out twenty times. He claims to know that this was done because of “racism” on the part of the celebrant in each of these incidents.

To put the best construction on this, its context must be presented as an ironic misunderstanding that many people have regarding our Lutheran confession of faith: that it is provincial, it is for rubes in flyover country, and it must be altered to fit a more sophisticated, progressive culture as found on the coasts.

Note: this beautiful confession of faith was published on Fr. Trifa’s facebook page. He is a Lutheran pastor serving in Romania.

Recently there has been a refreshing amount of spirited theological reflection about the current Covid pandemic, the vaccines and mandates blossoming forth from the Lutheran Church – Canada

To borrow from Charles Dickens, we can just imagine Jacob Marley warning the LCMS that this is our fate if we don’t crush the nescient woke movement within the LCMS.