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...Matthew's Lutheran Church...
...Buddhists gaped at their diversity. Archbishops and patriarchs, metropolitans and primates, bishops, canons, pastors and professors-capped, cassocked, bearded, bareheaded, in flowing robes or academic gowns, in business suits or sarongs-bodied forth the range and outreach of Christianity. Among them: Anglican Arthur Michael Ramsey, Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, German Evangelical Otto Dibelius, Episcopalian Arthur Lichtenberger, Greek Orthodox Lakovos...
From working with such patients, Lutheran Pastor Granger E. Westberg of Chicago concluded: "The minister has his tongue tied by well-meaning relatives who insist that he never mention anything about death to the patient. The minister is held back from helping his parishioner in this moment of crisis. So the minister is forced to limit his conversation to the weather and the activities of the ladies' aid." Happily, said Pastor Westberg, more and more patients understand the nature of their illness and freely discuss their prognoses. They quickly come to the point with their pastors: "I know what...
...their conversion-not as a means of grace, or cleansing from sin, or a setting apart, as with other forms of Christianity. The corollary to the Baptist tenet is that infants are too young to believe and therefore must not be baptized. Yet in an interview in the biweekly Lutheran Standard, official publication of the 2,300,000-member American Lutheran Church. Graham was quoted as saying: "I still have some personal problems in this matter of infant baptism, but all of my children with the exception of the youngest were baptized as infants. I do believe that something happens...
...week's end, Graham said he deplored the controversy, and felt that the Lutheran Standard had "misinterpreted several statements I made." His children, he explained, were baptized at the age of 9 and 10 by their own choice in the Presbyterian faith of their mother. Describing his as "an ecumenical family," Convinced Baptist Graham said that while he respects the opinions of those who have different views on baptism "my personal convictions are those of my denomination...