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"She calls on one of the "prayer team" who reads a prayer from an iphone which doesn't address in any way the issue before the assembly, obviously written ahead of time, with a bunch of stuff about Mother Earth and Father Sky and dancing. Ugh. Can no one pray spontaneously?"
The article linked at the top of this page asserts: "Within a few months after Neely was hired, McMahon said, a patron whom she did not name — though others familiar with the matter, including Neely, have identified this person as the pastor’s wife — checked out several children’s books and refused to return them for a prolonged period of time."
That's a lie.
Rolph, I noticed that the article mentioned a Lutheran Pastor Stephen Preus. Is he kin?
As I read the article, I wondered whether the events represented a divided board that stood behind the policies and the hiring. For example, given the tensions, hiring someone known to start a drag queen reading program seemed destined to raise tension rather than defuse.
Stephen Preus is my son.
The article linked at the top of this page asserts: "Within a few months after Neely was hired, McMahon said, a patron whom she did not name — though others familiar with the matter, including Neely, have identified this person as the pastor’s wife — checked out several children’s books and refused to return them for a prolonged period of time."
That's a lie.
Then bread and a cup of water and mixed wine are brought to the president of the brethren and he, taking them, sends up praise and glory to the Father of the universe through the name of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and offers thanksgiving at some length that we have been deemed worthy to receive these things from him. When he has finished the prayers and the thanksgiving, the whole congregation present assents, saying, "Amen." "Amen" in the Hebrew language means, "So be it." When the president has given thanks and the whole congregation has assented, those whom we call deacons give to each of those present a portion of the consecrated bread and wine and water, and they take it to the absent.
In looking at the 2019 Book of Common Prayer, it seems to me that the parallel line is in the preceding petition:
The current edition of the Book of Common Prayer was published in 1979.
