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...University of Chicago announced appointment of the Rev. Granger Westberg to a new post: professor of religion and health. Lutheran Westberg, 42, chaplain for the past three years at the university's clinics and before that at Chicago's Augustana Hospital, will serve on both the medical and theological faculties, putting into practice his conviction that patients' physical, mental and spiritual health are all of a piece, and that medicos and ministers should work together...
...Meeting in St. Paul, delegates to the 96th annual synod of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (membership: 516,968, fifth largest of the 18 Lutheran bodies in the U.S.) pondered the current shortage of pastors (857 available for 1,211 congregations), protested that "political expediency" in Washington has held up operation of the 1953 Refugee Relief Act, re-elected the Rev. Dr. Oscar A. Benson of Minneapolis for his second four-year term as president. Hottest issue of the convention was a proposal made by the United Lutheran Church in America (membership: 2,061,004) that Augustana join with U.L.C.A...
...Augustana Lutheran Mission Hiroshima-Ken, Japan...
Birth control was unanimously approved last week by the 95th annual convention of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (500,000 members), meeting in Los Angeles. Said the resolution: "An unrestrained production of children without realistic regard to God-given responsibilities involved in rearing children . . . may be as sinful and as selfish ... as is the complete avoidance of parenthood . . . The power to reproduce is His blessing, not a penalty, upon the sexual relationship in marriage...
...wife Florence, a onetime radio actress who still holds a union card, children Lex, 14, and Anna Barbara. 13). Born and raised in South Dakota-his mother was once the state's Mother of the Year-Larson made his A.B. magna cum laude in South Dakota's Augustana College, moved on to South Dakota University's law school, there won a Rhodes scholarship. At Oxford, he took first-class honors in jurisprudence, later got his M.A. At the Union Society, Oxford's top debating forum, he made treasurer but failed to become president. "I got trapped...