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...Church is like a little old grand-mother in a rocking chair -- constant movement without any progress," Krister Stendahl, Frothingham Professor of Biblical Studies, told a Lutheran audience at M.I.T. yesterday...
Speaking on "The Church in the year 2000," Stendahl had the group of Lutheran clergymen and housewives blistering in their seats with his attacks on the Church and on conventional attitudes toward...
...pigeonholed in a dozen states this year as a result of church opposition, mainly from Roman Catholics. Colorado's bill was carefully steered through the lower house by Denver Representative Richard D. Lamm, who kept the debate as unemotional as possible, relying on research prepared by the American Lutheran Church. Lamm gave Catholic opponents a quick history lesson...
When he began his campaign for Governor, few Nebraskans outside his home town of Wausa (pop. 725) had ever heard of Republican Norbert Tiemann. To overcome that disadvantage, Nobby" Tiemann, 42, son of a Lutheran minister, dotted the state with billboards and filled the airwaves with spot commercials plugging the slogan: TIEMANN, Nebraska's New Way to Spell Governor." What the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), trim, small-town banker was actually telling the voters was that the time had come to find a new way to spell...
...mission is to be defined that broadly, its ministers will obviously face some pitfalls. They may become involved in complicated situations they do not understand, and they may tarnish the spiritual aura of the church. The intellectual hero of many of the new activists is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran minister who was executed by the Nazis at the age of 39 for participating in an assassination plot against Hitler. He called for a new "worldly Christianity" to serve a civilization that had "come of age" and no longer needed to be pointed to a "beyond." The new church...