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...Lutheran theologian, he went to Harvard, where he studied writing under Critic Bernard DeVoto ("Cut out those adjectives"), became president of the Crimson, got a degree in History and Literature. Fuerbringer went back home to a reporter's job on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a practical journalism school which carried in its masthead Joseph Pulitzer's injunction: "Never be satisfied with merely printing news." There he heard the exhortations of a demanding city editor on how to get a story ("Don't come back until you've got it") and the need for accuracy ("When...
Psychology is important in pastoral counseling, but theology is important too, according to William E. Hulme, assistant professor of Christianity at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. Writing in this week's Christian Century, Lutheran Hulme feels that ministers are often so afraid of frightening people away with dogma that they fail to take advantage of its therapeutic possibilities...
Died. Lloyd C. (for Cassel) Douglas. 73, novelist; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. At 52, Lutheran Minister Douglas began a fifth collection of essays which somehow wound up as a novel. Magnificent Obsession, a fictionalized tribute to good works, sold nearly 700,000 copies its first year. After a second bestseller (Forgive Us Our Trespasses), Douglas left the pulpit, concentrated on his "nationwide parish of novel readers," who deluged him with letters of thanks for the comfort they found in his eleven novels, including The Robe, The Big Fisherman. He was always frankly "more concerned with healing bruised...
...City Council yesterday wrangled for an hour over a change of zoning beside the University Lutheran Church and heard testimony against the bill from the Church's pastor, Reverend Edward Stemley. The Council finally voted to refer it back to the Committee on Ordinances...
...Franz Rosenzweig, a German Jew, decided to become a Christian. Before he could be taken into the Lutheran Church, he dropped in for the 1913 Yom Kippur services at a little Berlin synagogue. Nobody is certain what thoughts and feelings the services gave him, but by the time they were over, Rosenzweig had changed his mind, resolved to live his religious life as a Jew and "return to where I have been elected from birth...