Living Armstrongism: The Humbling of LCG's Douglas Winnail?

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Humbling of LCG's Douglas Winnail?

While reading through the latest issue of LCG's recruitment magazine, Tomorrow's World (January-February 2014), I could not help but notice that Douglas Winnail did not have an article in it. I then saw that the previous issue (November-December 2013) did not have an article of his either. I then went through all the other issues. He had an article in every previous issue without exception since the magazine's founding in 1999.

This immediately caught my attention because previously he had always had an article within Tomorrow's World. I well remember when I got caught up within Armstrongism he always had an article in Tomorrow's World.

He also had no article in the latest issue of Living Church News.

However he still writes the weekly update as he has done since November 2005.

I cannot help but wonder if this is a sign that Douglas Winnail has fallen out of favor with Meredith and the leaders of LCG.

I decided to share this information at Banned by HWA. In response an anonymous commenter stated that Winnail has been displaced in LCG's pecking order by Gerald Weston.

LCG Power Struggles-- At the feast in Indian Wells, Rod Meredith announced that Gerald Weston was now #3 behind Meredith and Ames, but in front of Winnail! Is Winnail on the outs? Is Weston preparing to assume the hammer from Meredith?

Of course it is impossible for me to independently confirm this.

However I will say that Weston did have a full length article in the latest Tomorrow's World issue. This would support the idea that Weston has supplanted Douglas Winnail.

Gerald Weston first appeared in Tomorrow's World with a short article in the September-October 2003 issue. Then from 2005-7 he wrote a "Tomorrow's Youth" column which appeared every two issues. He appears to have replaced by Phil Sena starting in 2008. He then wrote one article in 2008 and did not appear again until 2012 when he got a column discussing events in Canada entitled "Oh Canada". It appeared once in 2012 and twice in 2013. Now in 2014 he appears to have been promoted with a full length article in the January-February 2014 issue, which I thought was dreadfully vague. I struggled to summarize it when I made my post about that issue.

Also Weston is also one of the presenters for the Tomorrow's World telecast. Winnail never presented the TV program.

I cannot help but wonder if LCG's post-Meredith power struggle is already beginning.

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Byker BobJanuary 16, 2014 at 9:23 PM
There is also the possibility that he has some sort of unannounced serious illness. I hope that is not true, but it would also explain things.

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UnknownSeptember 4, 2016 at 6:43 AM
What is the intent of writing these articles? Is it to build or to tear down? Is it to inform or to misinform? What are facts?
If HWA got it all wrong, who got it right? Any?
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Fall of Berlin Wall NOT Proof HWA was Right

It is often asserted that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 proved that HWA was right and he really did see the future.

This of course is nonsense. Herbert W. Armstrong said that Christ would return within twenty years in his book Mystery of the Ages. (PCG has since deleted those words so someone in there knows HWA spoke nonsense.) How convenient for them to forget this.

Also Herbert W. Armstrong never said the Soviet Union would collapse. He thought it would survive intact until a few years after Christ's return. It shows how biased some many in the COGs are that they never seem to notice this. This inconvenient truth is just tossed into the memory hole.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

See here for this statement's context.

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

WCG minister David Robinson had this to say about Roderick C. Meredith in a letter he wrote to him on September 19, 1979.

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.

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