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...recently grown more intense. The most notable conflict has taken place between conservatives and moderates in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, one of the nation's largest denominations (2.8 million U.S. members, 300,000 more outside the U.S.). In 1969 conservatives captured its leadership, and last winter nearly 400 moderate students walked out of its major seminary and established a rival seminary in exile (TIME, March 4). Now the Synod may well be facing an outright schism within its ranks, probably after its biennial convention next July...
...plates. But over all, the National Council of Churches reported in mid-November, the income of 41 Protestant denominations with 46 million members rose 7.7% in 1973 while the buying power of those dollars dropped 9.6%; the gap between collections and inflation will probably widen this year. The Lutheran Church in America, troubled by high interest rates on mortgage loans, has imposed a moratorium on purchasing sites and building new churches. Despite a large rise in costs, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will take in some $20 million this year, just even with 1973. It may have to curtail activities...
...good guys (read liberal or revolutionary) for a change. We should, as a matter of principle, put an end to our deadly Tinker Toy games of setting up and knocking down other people's governments. (The Rev.) Richard John Neuhaus Church of St. John the Evangelist (Lutheran) Co-Founder, Clergy and Laity Concerned New York City Lifting Mexico's Veil...
...Nixon has not forgiven himself," observes Maryknoll Priest-Psychologist Eugene Kennedy. "He has not admitted that he is capable of evil, that he has hurt countless persons. Forgiveness is a tough existential transition." Divine forgiveness is the model for human pardon, notes Church Historian Martin Marty, a Lutheran, and involves "an annihilation of what the sinner was. God completely wipes the slate clean. But that only happens if there is repentance, an about-face, a 180° turn. There is no evidence that the former President is doing anything of the kind." Nixon's attitude, complains Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president...
...Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod we have known is dead. The institution that has given us life is no more. Its structures are hopelessly corrupt. Its leadership is morally bankrupt. Its rank-and-file members have chosen to ignore and overlook evil...