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...clique-minded; but most seem to be made up of dedicated Christians who have found that in company with a few fellow believers, they can learn about theology and the Bible and grapple with the concrete problems of living as a Christian in a secular society. Says Lutheran Pastor William R. Snyder, president of the Minneapolis Ministerial Association, and an ardent believer in the efficacy of such cells: "This is the way of the future for the church. We're only using Christ's strategy. He spoke to his 5,000, but he also spoke...
Winter Light. Sweden's cinematic poltergeist, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, once more haunts the dark and chilly corridors where Man loses God, and once more the soul in torment seems to be his own. Bergman is the son of an austere Evangelical Lutheran parson who molded the boy with icy constraint and puritanical tyranny, and of a mother who was remote from both son and husband. To Bergman his parents were "sealed in iron caskets." This boyhood gave him the permeating motifs for his work: "God and the Devil, Life and Death, the drama of the couple...
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "Beyond the Sanctuary: Taize France," a documentary about a Lutheran monastery whose brothers return to the lay world to work...
Last week one major U.S. church decided that it was time to give Caesar more of his due. In a draft proposal of basic principles that will be put to its 1964 convention, the American Lutheran Church (2,400,000 members) agreed that "to levy upon churches charges for municipal services such as water, sewage, police and fire protection" is "consistent with sound public policy. We believe also that the churches should be willing to accept equitable taxation of parsonages and other dwellings. Churches conducting businesses not essential to their religious ministry ought to be subject to tax laws equally...
Fortified by such insights, Robinson believes, the church may grow into what the late German Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer called "religionless Christianity" -a spare and stripped-down vital faith...