Word: lutherane
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...Misogynism. Pike believes that "there is no viable theological objection to women in holy orders," and it is an argument that is slowly but surely taking force in Christianity. More than 70 U.S. Protestant churches accept women clerics; within the past decade, women have been ordained ministers in the Lutheran state churches of Denmark and Sweden and in a dozen Reformed and Evangelical churches of France, Germany and Eastern Europe...
...they do is agitate." Instead of dreaming about bigger and better marches, church leaders appear to have returned with renewed zeal to tackle the major problems of the Negro in the North-education, housing and job opportunity. And, thanks to the astonishingly wide interfaith representation in Alabama-from conservative Lutheran to Orthodox Jew, from civil rights veterans to ministers who had never done more than sermonize on race-they are doing so on a broadly ecumenical basis...
...Advent Lutheran Church...
...Service Book and Hymnal used by the Lutheran Church in America includes ten hymns with words or music by Martin Luther-and not one of them is among the top ten favorites of Lutherans today. His best-known work, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, ranks 15th on the list of the Lutherans' most frequently sung hymns, well behind a host of hymns by 18th and 19th century Protestants. According to a survey in The Lutheran Magazine, the hymns at the top of the list are Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty; Beautiful Savior; My Faith Looks...
...council's social-action stand. Episcopal Bishop Francis Bloy of Los Angeles says: "A careful study of the teachings of our blessed Lord makes it quite clear, I believe, that he expects his followers to be totally involved in the total life of the world." In December, the Lutheran Church of America sent its 7,000 ministers a pamphlet explaining the council's goals...