The blogosphere takes notice...

...of Braaten's bombshell, and that we are less than one month from Orlando 2005.

Good stuff on Verbum Ipsum - where the question is raised "What's Spirituality Got to Do With It?" - and Versus Populum, where hopefully we are beginning to get to the real issue: what is the source and norm of our proclamation, faith, and life?

Meanwhile, Pietist writes his own open letter to the ELCA:

"Oedipus Rex came to mind. I know the reference is only a partial one. That particular tragedy is about someone who fought and killed a man whom unknown to him was his father. I wonder if Hanson will is going to be seen as the tragic figure who unknowingly presided over the poisoning of his own mother (our mother the Lutheran tradition in which we were weaned)."

We can perhaps staunch the flow. We must rebuild our educational system. We need to help the faithful clergy. We need to reassure the membership that ours is a sound church built on sound doctrine and the experiments in liberal theology have had their day.