Word: lutheran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a seven month stay in Namibia sponsored by a grant from the Lutheran World Federation, Ralston H. Deffenbaugh investigated the quality of legal defense for those prosecuted under the South African policy of apartheid...
...Lutheran Martin Marty, an associate editor of the Christian Century, attributes the city's equanimity to a special combination of poise and pride. "Grand Rapids chic is not worrying about what New Yorkers think chic is. and not talking about it, hoping and knowing it will soon go away," he writes. "Grand Rapids chic is not knowing that anyone else cares about chic...
...month ago the University Lutheran Church welcomed a 22-year-old student who had spent the three last years in prison. Nine days ago the Old Cambridge Baptist Church voted to sponsor a refugee family, Constance F. Parvey, pastor of the Lutheran Church, said yesterday...
...cosmopolite from Velva (pop. 1,241), N. Dak., he was born into a bleak prairie universe whose "skyline offered nothing to soothe the senses." The grandson of a Norwegian immigrant, he inherited the official optimism of a pioneer, but also the matchless pessimism of an old-fashioned Lutheran. His father had to move the family to Minneapolis when the bank he worked for went broke during the droughts of the late 1920s...
...proclaimed Pastor Peter Muhlenberg, 29. Then, before his astonished flock in Woodstock, Virginia, he tore off his vestments to reveal the uniform of a militia officer. That was last January. Now Muhlenberg is colonel of the regiment he raised himself, the 8th Virginia. But the country's main Lutheran leader, his father Henry, follows Martin Luther in mistrusting revolutions. Other churches are also taking sides...