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Friday, February 21, 2014
Exposing Liberalism at Concordia University of Chicago
Concordia University of Chicago is allowing its students to "intern" at Planned Parenthood of Illinois, as can be seen here. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion seller in America. Concordia University of Chicago (CUC) is a Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) affiliated college.
How could something like this happen at CUC? The answer is that the faculty at CUC are theologically liberal and politically leftist. Many aren't Lutherans or even professing Christians at all. Here's a sampling of radical CUC faculty:
1. Michelle Morkert Morkert's profile claims "Her areas of expertise include the studies of women, gender and militarization, critical whiteness and post-colonialism. In addition she thoroughly studies women’s and gender studies, as well as the development of women’s and gender studies programs at faith-based institutions." If you want to know what "critical whiteness" is supposed to mean, go here and here.
Listed among Morkert's presentations is "Radical Action on a Conservative Campus: Creating a Women’s and Gender Studies Program at a Small Midwestern University," a presentation which she gave with David Settje, and "Transforming Pedagogy: Using a Teach-In to Ignite Student Social Action," a presentation which she gave with Settje, Jodie Dewey, Laura Pollom, and BettyAnn Mocek. In addition, Morkert has listed several publications and presentations the titles of which begin with the words "A Feminist Analysis..."
2. Jodie Dewey As you can see for yourself, Dewey's profile page lists many pro-transgender publications and presentations authored and given by her. According toSteadfast Lutherans, she is tenured at CUC and is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and the World Professional Association of Transgender Health. Scott Diekmann further writes: "A portion of what she has written and spoken about involves transgendered people. Dr. Dewey seems to advocate a position of normalizing and affirming these types of behavior, a position that is contrary to that of Scripture and God’s created order. She refers to God’s creation of male and female as “our strict binary gender system” and refers to “the dichotomous gender structure,” and “gender policing” (ref. here and here)." As Diekmann also points out, a student commented of Dewey at ratemyprofessor.com that "She approaches everything from a cynical, neo-Marxist perspective, which was fine with me.”
3. David Settje In addition to that mentioned above, Settje's profile reveals that he has given presentations in support of the apostate United Church of Christ and the liberal "Lutheran" Mary Todd, a known advocate of women's ordination and apologist for Seminex. Settje dedicates his book 2007 book Lutherans and the Longest War to Todd. In the book, Settje is sympathetic to Communism and the communist Pete Seeger. Settje is also in the book highly critical of Richard Wurmbrand, the Romanian Christian pastor and missionary who was literally tortured for his faith behind the Iron Curtain.
4. Isabel Nunez As evident from the list of publications and presentations on her profile, Nunez is a pro-"LGBTQ" activist. This is even more the case with Pamela Konkol. Together they have given presentations entitled "Visibility Matters-Higher Education and Teacher Preparation in Illinois: A Web-Based Assessment of LGBTQ Presence" and "Making the Invisible Visible: An Assessment of Illinois Teacher Preparation Programs’ Inclusion of LGBTQ Issues." Together with Morkert and Pollom, Nunez and Konkol have given a presentation entitled "You Want Me to Teach Where? Preparing Teacher Candidates to Serve in Culturally and Socially Different Contexts Than Their Own." That last presentation, along with Morkert and Settje's "Radical Action on a Conservative Campus," demonstrate that these Leftists all came to Concordia Chicago on a mission to "enlighten" us "backward" conservative Lutherans with "progressive" ideology that embraces such wicked things as abortion,feminism, Marxism, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. In doing this, they are following Saul Alinsky's prescription for infiltrating all of society's institutions (including but not limited to schools and even churches) in order to convert them to the Leftist/Progressive worldview. These leftist professors at CUC have apparently encountered so little opposition in this that they needn't even be discreet about what their anti-Christian beliefs are. As is also evident from their profiles, the above faculty all came to CUC between 2002 and 2006 (and I would love to know the story behindthat).
If you think the above sampling of radical leftist professors at CUC are a minority, think again. In 2008, a number of CUC's faculty signed a petition in support of Commmunist terrorist bomber William Ayers. The president of CUC defended the action. You can read William Ayers' biography here.
And here, in addition to the above faculty profiles, is more evidence that Concordia Chicago has become a hotbed of homosexual activism:
Play Depicting Gays as Victims Staged at Concordia-Chicago
BJS Member Shares his Wyoming Perspective on the Concordia-Chicago Play
Follow up Found on Townhall.com Regarding the Play put on by Concordia-Chicago
Concordia Chicago to host LGBT advocacy event
President Johnson Responds to STOP Program at Concordia Chicago
E-Mails Sent to Concordia Students Announcing Last Week's STOP Events
Our Concordia System is Failing Us - An Eyewitness Report from the CUC STOP Event
Those of you who are fellow LCMS members will how conservative, orthodox, Confessional Lutherans rightly took back our Seminary in St. Louis from the theological liberals/modernists and gave them the boot. But the war is not over. The war against heresy and false teaching in our Synod and in the Church at large will continue until Christ returns. This is a spiritual war (Ephesians 6:12-13). And although we took back St. Louis Seminary from the enemy, we did not take back our Concordia University System from the enemy. These universities may not be directly funded by the Synod, but it is unacceptable to have schools which teach falsehood and evil associated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. If we cannot purge these colleges of heretics, false teachers, and enemies of Christ and humanity, then these colleges will need to be stripped of their LCMS affiliation. If we do not do this, then we will have only postponed the eventual slide of our Synod into the apostasy that now engulfs the ELCA.
How could something like this happen at CUC? The answer is that the faculty at CUC are theologically liberal and politically leftist. Many aren't Lutherans or even professing Christians at all. Here's a sampling of radical CUC faculty:
1. Michelle Morkert Morkert's profile claims "Her areas of expertise include the studies of women, gender and militarization, critical whiteness and post-colonialism. In addition she thoroughly studies women’s and gender studies, as well as the development of women’s and gender studies programs at faith-based institutions." If you want to know what "critical whiteness" is supposed to mean, go here and here.
Listed among Morkert's presentations is "Radical Action on a Conservative Campus: Creating a Women’s and Gender Studies Program at a Small Midwestern University," a presentation which she gave with David Settje, and "Transforming Pedagogy: Using a Teach-In to Ignite Student Social Action," a presentation which she gave with Settje, Jodie Dewey, Laura Pollom, and BettyAnn Mocek. In addition, Morkert has listed several publications and presentations the titles of which begin with the words "A Feminist Analysis..."
2. Jodie Dewey As you can see for yourself, Dewey's profile page lists many pro-transgender publications and presentations authored and given by her. According toSteadfast Lutherans, she is tenured at CUC and is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and the World Professional Association of Transgender Health. Scott Diekmann further writes: "A portion of what she has written and spoken about involves transgendered people. Dr. Dewey seems to advocate a position of normalizing and affirming these types of behavior, a position that is contrary to that of Scripture and God’s created order. She refers to God’s creation of male and female as “our strict binary gender system” and refers to “the dichotomous gender structure,” and “gender policing” (ref. here and here)." As Diekmann also points out, a student commented of Dewey at ratemyprofessor.com that "She approaches everything from a cynical, neo-Marxist perspective, which was fine with me.”
3. David Settje In addition to that mentioned above, Settje's profile reveals that he has given presentations in support of the apostate United Church of Christ and the liberal "Lutheran" Mary Todd, a known advocate of women's ordination and apologist for Seminex. Settje dedicates his book 2007 book Lutherans and the Longest War to Todd. In the book, Settje is sympathetic to Communism and the communist Pete Seeger. Settje is also in the book highly critical of Richard Wurmbrand, the Romanian Christian pastor and missionary who was literally tortured for his faith behind the Iron Curtain.
4. Isabel Nunez As evident from the list of publications and presentations on her profile, Nunez is a pro-"LGBTQ" activist. This is even more the case with Pamela Konkol. Together they have given presentations entitled "Visibility Matters-Higher Education and Teacher Preparation in Illinois: A Web-Based Assessment of LGBTQ Presence" and "Making the Invisible Visible: An Assessment of Illinois Teacher Preparation Programs’ Inclusion of LGBTQ Issues." Together with Morkert and Pollom, Nunez and Konkol have given a presentation entitled "You Want Me to Teach Where? Preparing Teacher Candidates to Serve in Culturally and Socially Different Contexts Than Their Own." That last presentation, along with Morkert and Settje's "Radical Action on a Conservative Campus," demonstrate that these Leftists all came to Concordia Chicago on a mission to "enlighten" us "backward" conservative Lutherans with "progressive" ideology that embraces such wicked things as abortion,feminism, Marxism, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. In doing this, they are following Saul Alinsky's prescription for infiltrating all of society's institutions (including but not limited to schools and even churches) in order to convert them to the Leftist/Progressive worldview. These leftist professors at CUC have apparently encountered so little opposition in this that they needn't even be discreet about what their anti-Christian beliefs are. As is also evident from their profiles, the above faculty all came to CUC between 2002 and 2006 (and I would love to know the story behindthat).
If you think the above sampling of radical leftist professors at CUC are a minority, think again. In 2008, a number of CUC's faculty signed a petition in support of Commmunist terrorist bomber William Ayers. The president of CUC defended the action. You can read William Ayers' biography here.
And here, in addition to the above faculty profiles, is more evidence that Concordia Chicago has become a hotbed of homosexual activism:
Play Depicting Gays as Victims Staged at Concordia-Chicago
BJS Member Shares his Wyoming Perspective on the Concordia-Chicago Play
Follow up Found on Townhall.com Regarding the Play put on by Concordia-Chicago
Concordia Chicago to host LGBT advocacy event
President Johnson Responds to STOP Program at Concordia Chicago
E-Mails Sent to Concordia Students Announcing Last Week's STOP Events
Our Concordia System is Failing Us - An Eyewitness Report from the CUC STOP Event
Those of you who are fellow LCMS members will how conservative, orthodox, Confessional Lutherans rightly took back our Seminary in St. Louis from the theological liberals/modernists and gave them the boot. But the war is not over. The war against heresy and false teaching in our Synod and in the Church at large will continue until Christ returns. This is a spiritual war (Ephesians 6:12-13). And although we took back St. Louis Seminary from the enemy, we did not take back our Concordia University System from the enemy. These universities may not be directly funded by the Synod, but it is unacceptable to have schools which teach falsehood and evil associated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. If we cannot purge these colleges of heretics, false teachers, and enemies of Christ and humanity, then these colleges will need to be stripped of their LCMS affiliation. If we do not do this, then we will have only postponed the eventual slide of our Synod into the apostasy that now engulfs the ELCA.