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Walnut Wilt
Abstract: Word Alone board member decries trouble in the garden.
Under the title "Trouble in the Garden", Word Alone board member Frederick W. Baltz develops the analogy of the effect of walnut trees on nearby tomato plants ("walnut Wilt") to explain the decline in membership in the ELCA:
Despite all attempts to reverse the gradual loss of members by the ELCA and its predecessors we are still losing members each year. Losses now threaten to be less gradual with 80,000 lost last year alone.
I believe the soil has been contaminated; there's trouble in the garden. Our witness cannot grow and produce the intended fruit. We need to identify and remove what harms that witness.
What is contaminating the soil has roots... and fallen leaves and nuts that all keep contaminating the soil. The WordAlone Network exists to remove these roots...
Uh-oh.
