Burnside gets 10 years
B
Being neighborly How do you celebrate summer, children and community in downtown Washington, D.C.? You gather almost 40 children for four weeks and host a summer day camp ministry that uses the gifts of congregants, parents and friends to offer reading, the arts, fi eld trips and community- building activities. The second annual Art Smart Summer camp held at Luther Place Memorial developed when the congregation began asking, “Who is our neighbor?”
10 Christians flee Iraq
After Qaraqosh, Iraq’s largest Chris- tian city, was captured by Islamic militants, Pope Francis called Aug. 7 for peace and worldwide efforts to protect and help victims of the violence. The Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, seized Qaraqosh in Nineveh province, caus- ing as many as 25 percent (approxi- mately 100,000) of the country’s Christians to flee toward the autono- mous Kurdistan Region. Previously, in July, thousands of Christians and other minorities fled Mosul after the Islamic State declared that anyone who did not leave or convert would pay a special tax or be killed. The
BBC reported that the militants were removing crosses from churches and burning religious books. In the last decade, the number of Christians in Iraq has gone from 1.5 million to between 350,000 and 450,000.
Corrections In the August cover story (page 19), in the fifth full paragraph, the sen- tence should read: I’ve participated pastorally in both and either feels less faithful to me than watching some- one like Mark walk out the door.” ... In “Editor notes” (August, page 4), the total value of congregational properties and assets is $19.7 billion.
NOTICE: MOVING SERVICES
Skip Higgins 225-937-0700 (Cell)
“Moving Lutheran clergy to new ministries since 1982.” • Clergy discounts
www.customovers.com ●
higginskip@aol.com •Only one survey/ 3 estimates
• Full value protection plans • Internet satellite tracking
CUSTOM MOVERS - FHWA Lic. # MC370752 * Certain Restrictions Apply.
12
www.thelutheran.org • Major van lines represented • $200/Day late pick-up/late delivery penalty* • 24/7 cell phone contact to assure your peace of mind
ruce Burnside, former bishop of the South-Central Synod of Wis- consin, was sentenced to 10 years
in prison and an additional five years of extended supervision. Burnside, 60, had pleaded guilty in May to second- degree reckless homicide, a felony, in the death of Maureen Mengelt, 52, a Sun Prairie, Wis., mother of three who was struck by his SUV. According to local news sources,
the sentence came July 31 after a nearly eight-hour hearing at which family members spoke on behalf of the victim, and three clergy members spoke on Burnside’s behalf urging leniency. Burnside spoke for nearly 30 min-
utes, his first public comments since he was arrested April 7, 2013, at a con- venience store after losing control of his vehicle on an exit ramp and hitting Mengelt, who was out for a training run. He called it “a nightmare beyond a nightmare for everybody” and said “no one deplores what I have done and what happened that day more than I do,” according to the Wisconsin State Journal. While he accepted sole responsibil-
ity for what happened and felt great remorse, Burnside said he did not flee the scene of the crash or realize he was too impaired by alcohol to drive. His attorney contended alcohol was just one of the causes of the crash, which also involved a combination of speed- ing, voice texting and fiddling with the radio. Dane County Circuit Judge Nicho-
las McNamara rejected the attorney’s assertion that the case was “not about driving drunk,” citing Burnside’s blood-alcohol content (0.128 percent, beyond the legal limit of 0.08 percent) as proof.
SARAH BRAU
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52