ELCA Seminarian Courtney Smith

7/28/2019

Courtney Smith is "a graduate student at United Lutheran Seminary (formerly Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and Gettysburg), studying for my Masters of Divinity...(and is) on the ordination track in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) to become a pastor." (See here)

Here is some of what she has been saying on Twitter:

Fact check: Jerusalem is the Capitol of Israel.

Don’t tell me you care about the Middle East if you don’t think Palestine should be free and lifted from oppression #SOTU2019
— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) February 6, 2019

America is not first in my heart and it never will be. It is merely the country I live in. My faith and my God are first in my heart. #SOTU2019
— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) February 6, 2019

Future ELCA pastor Courtney Smith says "America is not first in my heart and it never will be. It is merely the country I live in."

Land of the free? Only if you’re a straight white male...
— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) July 4, 2019

I love when our churches replace two kick ass women with an old straight white male. Can we please move forward and not backward in 2019?
— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) May 30, 2019

Two tweets aimed at "straight white males."

Now for some of her politics:

So you’re going against nuclear disarmament and you’re going to bring about nuclear war on the world. Tell me how this is going to end well. #SOTU2019
— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) February 6, 2019

Don’t bring God into this. Separation of church and state. I don’t want to hear your civil religion. #SOTU2019 #civilreligion
— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) February 6, 2019

DONT. TELL. ME. WHAT. TO. DO. WITH. MY. BODY. Full stop. End of discussion. #SOTU2019
— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) February 6, 2019

Build bridges not walls. It didn’t work well in Germany. It’s not working well in Palestine. If we are supposed to be a great country, why do you think it will work here. Don’t do it. #SOTU2019
— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) February 6, 2019

So, I’m a pastoral kinda person, but what happened to that separation of church and state? https://t.co/dhulS5ZdUK
— Courtney Smith (@cdsmith421) July 27, 2019

1 Comment

Didaskalos link

7/28/2019 06:45:22 pm

ELCA United Lutheran seminarian: "DONT. TELL. ME. WHAT. TO. DO. WITH. MY. BODY. Full stop. End of discussion."

No, ELCA seminarian, your solipsistic pronouncement is not the final word on the willful killing of God's preborn creations and the ELCA's corporate complicity in that killing.

'Attacking the Tabernacle' -- https://www.firstthings.com/article/1999/11/attacking-the-tabernacle

. . . "Psalm 139, then, is picking up on a known thread of imagery when it compares the formation of an infant in the womb to his being 'woven' like a tent curtain. In the womb, the Lord weaves the tent that the infant will 'wear' until he puts it off at death. With its allusions to the roqem work of the tabernacle, the Psalm goes further, implying not only that God has made the infant in the womb, but also that the infant is being woven into a dwelling for God. Abortion attacks not only a creature of God but a house of God. The abortionist’s instruments pierce through the unfinished roqem curtains and tread on holy ground. We are talking here not only about slaughter of the innocent but about sacrilege, a direct attack on 'space' claimed by God. That is the most serious offense possible. Paul’s warning hovers ominously over our nation: “If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy.”

"When we have left in tatters the tents God wove for Himself, how shall He dwell among us?"

It's time -- and past time -- to flee the ELCA:

"...I want to write this as a warning. First, to those orthodox souls who remain in 'evolving' churches. They belong to and support churches that increasingly depart from right teaching. Indeed, those churches suppress it. And it will get worse in the future. Today’s United Lutheran Seminary seminarians will be tomorrow’s pastors. Remember Timothy: 'For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.' (2 Tim. 4:3)"
'ELCA Hits Bottom' -- https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/10/elca-hits-bottom

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.

ELCA Wolves Blog

ELCA Seminarian Courtney Smith

Leave a Reply.

Archives

Categories

Home

Share

Exposed Blog

HELP

Contact