Dorhauer has a passion
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Saw this fluffy news item pop up today in the East Valley Tribune:
The reality is that Dorhauer's phony conspiracy further divides the UCC:
It's somewhat amusing that he was merely "tolerated" in St. Louis. It's also sad. Why do we, as a denomination, tolerate someone like Dorhauer?
His outspoken passion for justice made the Rev. John Dorhauer mostly “tolerated” when he worked in leadership for the United Church of Christ in St. Louis. But now that he serves as conference minister for the 43 churches of the Southwest Conference in Arizona, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, the 47-year-old pastor believes he has come to a region and a position where he can be more authentic.Dorhauer's "passion" and "zeal" is another man's lunacy. His horribly written and horrendously edited book, “Steeplejacking: How the Christian Right is Hijacking Mainstream Religion,” is a literary disaster. Nearly half the book covers the Institute on Religion and Democracy yet it doesn't mention a single church that the IRD has "Steeplejacked".
“The work of justice has always been at the center of whatever ministry I do,” he said.
“Twenty years in Missouri was in some ways exasperated because I was tolerated in spite of the justice work that was important to me.” Because Dorhauer did “the other things well,” they put up with his zeal for justice.
The reality is that Dorhauer's phony conspiracy further divides the UCC:
- Dorhauer proudly claims ministers are calling him suspicious of visitors to their churches.
- Dorhauer boasts that one of the churches that attended his workshop mistakenly accused a woman of being part of this conspiracy.
- Dorhauer concedes that "all I have is circumstantial evidence, around which I have built a theory"
- Dorhauer's blog doesn't allow people to challenge his wild conspiracy theories and has refused to provide proof of a church stealing conspiracy within the UCC
It's somewhat amusing that he was merely "tolerated" in St. Louis. It's also sad. Why do we, as a denomination, tolerate someone like Dorhauer?
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daver, 10:29 PM
daver, 10:29 PM
Those churches that just want a voice are going to face a wall of skepticism from Dorhauer as he raises an eyebrow looking for the IRD within those churches. I can see those on the edge turning away for good.