Speaking in Tongues Just Part of the Fun at Scott Walker's Church

[riversedge]

Some history of Walker and his Church. Very interesting to say the least


By Jud Lounsbury on February 23, 2015

Speaking in Tongues Just Part of the Fun at Scott Walker's Church

http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/02/188013/speaking-tongues-just-part-fun-scott-walkers-church



Jud Lounsbury

Scott Walker is, famously, the son of a preacher man.

A Baptist preacher man, to be exact. He continued that faith well into adulthood and was even a deacon of his local church, Underwood Memorial Baptist in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Apparently everything was going swimmingly until around 2003, when a liberal female pastor named Jamie Washam showed up. Washam opposed the war in Iraq and thought that gay couples should be able to see each other in the hospital—truly unChristian stuff.

So Walker left the church and joined the Meadowbrook Church—close to his old church, geographically speaking, but a world apart in its beliefs.

Meadowbrook is one of nine churches in the Milwaukee area that end in "brook," which sprung out of the Elmbrook megachurch in nearby Brookfield, Wisconsin. The church is not affiliated with any organized religion and was started by an Englishman named D. Stuart Briscoe, who came to Wisconsin in 1970 and had no formal religious training.

A 1988 Milwaukee Journal profile of the church said the congregation is "almost all white, young, and affluent." And that "its critics say its emphasis is on saving souls while ignoring more earthly social issues, and its theology reinforces—even blesses the lifestyle of many of its members."


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[Fred Sanders]

1. Religion used to be on the fringes of public policy, now with the religious Wingnut politicians it

in the white hot centre, their religious beliefs drives all of the policy.

So why is it still verboten to ask those that openly create policy based on religion exactly what their religious beliefs are? What happened to secularism?

If they want to wear their religion on their sleeve it is fair game to ask them about how their religion affects their policies.

[randys1]

3. I think it is fair to say that if you think you speak in tongues, you probably should not

be allowed within 100 feet of anything beyond washing cars or windows and such.

But I bet we have judges and Governors and Senators and House members that think they speak in tongues.

It is all going to get really exciting any day now when the SC guts ACA and Walker and the Koch's put the final nail in the working person's coffin, etc.

I heard in WI thousands of TEACHERS and UNION MEMBERS

voted

wait for it

for

hold on to your hat

SCOTT WALKER

[TexasProgresive]

2. What, no snake handling

I guess that would be weird if the congregants all fondled Walker.

[Scuba]

4. Well, Wanker is a beady-eyed little snake.

[alterfurz]

6. badgerbadgerbadger...snake!

[COLGATE4]

5. I have it on good authority that this little musical

ditty comes from Walker's church. Enjoy:

[dembotoz]

7. the brooks are not known for speaking in tongues--more of an assembly of god type thing

be careful who you say bad things about the brooks to
they are way popular in the suburbs.