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Niebuhr was a preacher's kid from Missouri who said that he got into Yale Divinity School because they were hard up for students; his degree was from Elmhurst (Ill.) College, a small, then unaccredited school run by his Lutheran denomination, the Evangelical Synod of North America, now part of the United Church of Christ. "I desired relevance rather than scholarship," he recalled and, rather than earn a doctorate, he plunged into an industrial parish in Detroit. His 13 years as pastor there honed his moral passion. After visiting a sick, unemployed Ford worker in 1927, he wrote bitterly...
...explicitly illustrated volume, scheduled for U.S. publication early this summer, has already sold 30,000 in a German edition published last year by an independent Lutheran firm there. It has become a standard sex-education text at all the Lutheran youth centers in West Germany. The author of the German edition, Protestant Physician Martin Goldstein, in fact developed the book in response to questions he encountered as a medical adviser to the Lutheran Youth Counseling Center in Düsseldorf. For the U.S. edition, Yale Research Fellow Erwin J. Haeberle has rewritten the text to reflect U.S. sex laws...
Obvious Abuses. Inexplicable inconsistencies abound. Pennsylvania exempts properties owned by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, but the Elks, Moose, Eagles and Masons must pay taxes on their properties. The Lutheran Church's profit-making Augsburg Publishing House in Minneapolis is exempt, but Nashville's assessor has denied exemption to similar publishing enterprises of Methodists, Baptists and Seventh-day Adventists. The Holiday Inns at Greenville and Boaz, Ala., pay no taxes because the municipalities own them. The University of Michigan earns a tidy income from Willow Run Airport, on which it pays no property taxes; Michigan...
...question of papal authority in general, has been so non-negotiable for both Catholics and non-Catholics that until recently even serious discussion of the problem was ruled out by ecumenical etiquette. Now the papacy and its powers are being studied in official talks between Catholic and Lutheran theologians in the U.S. Within Catholicism itself, liberal theologians are subjecting the doctrine of infallibility to new and searching scrutiny...
...meeting of the council's General Assembly. "There is nothing in Mr. Hope's record showing public commitment to the three pressing issues that confront the council-poverty, racial justice and peace," said the Rev. Richard J. Neuhaus of Brooklyn's St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church. Hope is known rather for his "uncritical endorsement of the military establishment and the Indochina war." After prolonged debate, the delegates decided to switch the award to the late Whitney M. Young Jr. Said Hope: "I'd vote for him myself...