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...ROBERT J. BODA Immanuel Lutheran Church Grove City, Minn...
...condemning the U.S. Supreme Court for its decision in the Schempp-Murray Lord's Prayer and Bible reading in the public school cases, I am wondering how these critics of the Supreme Court's decision would bring a prayer into the public schools that would satisfy the Lutheran Synods [Aug. 23], let alone the Catholics, Jews and many other religious groups in our society. When a single denomination, such as the Lutherans, finds it difficult to engage in joint prayer, isn't it the height of folly to expect school administrators and teachers to come up with...
...solemn protest against the departure of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod from the historical position of the Lutheran Synodical Conference," the delegates voted overwhelmingly to leave the conference and end co-sponsorship with Missouri of several joint welfare and missionary programs. Missouri's sin: working with more liberal bodies who belong to the National Lutheran Council, which Wisconsin regards as a center of downright heresy...
...break with Missouri leaves the nation's fourth largest Lutheran Church as isolated as when it began. Founded in Granville (now a Milwaukee suburb) by three German missionary pastors in 1850, the Synod later joined with Missouri and four other Lutheran groups in the Synodical Conference "to encourage and strengthen one another in faith and confession." Neither Missouri nor Wisconsin took any part in the mergers that led to the creation of the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church in America...
Without question, Wisconsin is now the most rigidly fundamentalist of all Lutheran groups. All pastors must teach that the Bible cannot err even in details, that God created the world in six 24-hour days, that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch. Wisconsin churches hardly ever join with other Christian groups in sponsoring civic projects. But "we aren't ogres," says Pastor James Schaefer of Milwaukee's Atonement Church. "We enjoy a martini once in a while, and some of us even say 'dammit' from time to time...