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Larry Houston doesn’t hail from an area known for much of a gay scene. He was born April 3, 1957 on a grain and livestock farm near Chapin, IL into a Lutheran family with six brothers and sisters, a mother, and a father who had a drinking problem, stayed out late every night, and constantly had affairs. Houston cites his father as the source of his homosexual “issues,” a pattern that he says is typical for many gays...
...religion scholars, has to do with appetites that are harder to satisfy outside church, as the culture grows noisier and more coarse. "People will come to church if they know they will be fed there--fed with the experience of an encounter with Christ," argues Robert Klonowski, a Lutheran minister in Chicago. "Billy Graham is no different than the weekly preacher. The job is the same...
...Shepherd in Chief who can somehow tend to both the budget and the soul. But as important as administrative skill and pastoral experience may be, many churches admit that right now, there's one gift that matters most. Says Duain Claiborne, who chaired the call committee for his Lutheran church in Northfield, Ill.: "The only thing people want to know is, 'Can he preach...
...While the firefights raged, the Beit Jala incursion was also hurting Israel diplomatically. A PR disaster followed reports of children huddling frightened in a Lutheran orphanage while Israeli soldiers took up firing positions in their building. The State Department specifically appealed for the safety of the children. Coming as it did on the heels of a similar reprimand over the fact that a family of Americans had been in the Ramallah building struck by the Israeli rockets that killed Abu Ali Mustafa on Monday, the Beit Jala incursion was clearly hurting Israel's image in the West...
...Chapter Two: College Days After graduating from Midland Lutheran College, Cliff pursues graduate work in physics and geology at the University of Nebraska. He drops out in 1939 to marry his first wife and begins work at the tiny Nebraska Book Company. Leaves his job briefly for a stint as a meteorologist in the Army Air Corps...