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Penalties in Time. But modernizing the law may involve more than modernizing the definition of insanity. In many states, court procedures governing the criminally insane are also being overhauled. After Howard Pierson's 1935 confession, he was brought to court, not to determine whether he was deranged while committing...
Preserving Freedom. The Disciples can easily talk union because they combine a maximum of spiritual freedom with a minimum of churchly trappings. Their congregations practice baptism by immersion, elect their own pastors, allow laymen (and women) to conduct the austere Sunday services, which may omit a sermon but never omit...
> In Moscow, 25 plant executives of the five-factory Leather Combine were awaiting trial, charged with diverting tons of their inventories. Most sensational was the confession of N. Medintziv, supervisor of Sporting Equipment Factory No. 2, that he had turned his back, for thousands of rubles a month in payoffs...
An Unworthy Friar. It was the sale of indulgences for good works that touched off Martin Luther to publish his 95 theses at Wittenberg. As a devout young Augustinian friar, Luther had been obsessed by the thought of his unworthiness as a sinful man before God, and no routine of...
The break with Missouri leaves the nation's fourth largest Lutheran Church as isolated as when it began. Founded in Granville (now a Milwaukee suburb) by three German missionary pastors in 1850, the Synod later joined with Missouri and four other Lutheran groups in the Synodical Conference "to encourage...