Dear Members of the Board of Directors,
Dear Friends,
At the conclusion of my Part Four of my 2011 letter to the Board (dated 6/29/2011), I stated:
In Part Five, which may not be complete for some time, I will address the record of Elaine Davidson, and the important truth that if we become aware of or are a party to a wrongness, and do not do what we are able to do to correct it, we are complicit in that wrongness.
Note: The 2011 letter is readily accessible at
http://www.duncansbeemers.com/ bod11.html
I hereby submit Part Five to you for your consideration. The substance of Part Five is in an online analysis entitled Excerpts and Observations, Correspondence between the Board of Directors and Elaine Natale Davidson, CSB 2002 - 2009, and is accessible at
http://www.duncansbeemers.com/end.html
Note: the existence of this site has not been made known to others. The analysis is online because of its size, and because the use of internal links can then make the content more comprehensible, whereby you can click on a link to go directly there, and then use the back arrow to return.
The page has been made known to others as of 7/28/2014.
It is an interesting datum of history that we might say we presently have the 'youngest' Board in history, or at least since our Leader originally established the Board, insofar as three members have come aboard in 2013, and the member with longest tenure approximately five years ago. In effect then, not any of the present Board members essentially participated in the correspondence during the years in question.
I believe the then Boards' actions as recorded in the seven years of correspondence are shown to be grievous. Indeed, in my heading to Part Four, which also applies to Part Five, I used stronger language --
The abomination of excommunicating teachers
for their loyalty to our Leader and to the Christ
due to the the Board following
the false god of Board supremacy
Indeed, if we think of supremacy at all with regard to church governance, we should think of supremacy of the Christ.
I ask that you review the analysis with an open mind, with your heart as well as your head, and with this question in view -- What does obedience to the Christ and to our Leader require in the present? Or, even more succinctly, What is the Christly thing to do?
Here is another question: What can be more important in the movement today than to encourage each student, member, practitioner, teacher, officer, branch, and faithful follower of our Leader, to think deeply and prayerfully about what is required to fulfill the mission of our Church and movement?
Before I close, let me hark back to an uplifting view--which appeared in Part Three following a discussion of the business of The Mother Church --
Lovingly and sincerely,
Paul Kautz
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The Board's response letter of March 18, 2014, was gracious, but non-substantive.