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...largest Lutheran body in the U.S.- the 2,500,000-member United Lutheran Church in America-wound up its 22nd biennial convention in Atlantic City last week. In a busy round of meetings, the 700 clerical and lay delegates...
...Approved a merger with three other Lutheran denominations-the 605,000-member Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, organized in 1860 by U.S. citizens of Swedish birth or ancestry; the 36,000-member Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod), founded in 1890; the 24,000-member American Evangelical Lutheran Church organized by Danish missionaries in 1872. The move to merge, said United Lutheran President Franklin Clark Fry, was a "historic and momentous decision...
...Substituted a 10,000-word statement on Holy Communion for the 250-word statement in effect for 20 years. The new policy, which will guide 4.872 United Lutheran pastors, tentatively opens the door to celebration of Communion with Protestants of other denominations...
North Dakota: Scandinavian, Lutheran, Republican...
...years, most of the opposition has given way to interest and approval. Editorialized Paris' daily Le Monde: "Taizé contributes to leveling the psychological and doctrinal obstacles that history has strewn in the path of Christian unity." Taizé's brothers (average age: 30) are currently either Lutheran or Calvinist...