Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movement was founded in the early twenties at Oxford by a Lutheran Minister, Frank Buchman...
Last week the National Lutheran Council, an organization representing seven major Lutheran bodies, became the Legion's first important Protestant ally. Speaking for 2,000,000 Lutherans, the Council met in Manhattan, heard a report praising the Legion, urged Lutherans to boycott "degrading" films...
...Manhattan, Rev. Dr. George Unangst Wenner celebrated the 66th anniversary of his ordination as a Lutheran pastor. White-bearded and slightly deaf at 90, Dr. Wenner is the oldest U. S. minister in point of service. In 1867, a Yale graduate and a Union Theological seminarian, he began preaching in a blacksmith shop on 14th Street. Soon he founded Christ Church on 19th Street on the far East Side. His congregation grew to 500, then dwindled with an influx of Jews and Italians. With 120 members, Christ Church today shares its building with an Italian congregation. Pastor Wenner preaches...
...Savannah, Ga. met the 9th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church. Re-elected president, as he has always been since the Church was organized in 1918, was Vandyke-bearded Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan. The United Lutherans flayed the liquor traffic and indecent cinema; cabled a protest to Adolf Hitler over the coercion of the German churches; came out for a fixed date for Easter and for more unity among the 18 North American Lutheran bodies. Especially would the United Lutheran Church (1,500,000 members) woo the American Lutheran Church (525,000 members). But the latter...
From Berlin had come Dr. August Jaeger, Realm Bishop Miiller's legal adviser. With chin out, Dr. Jaeger, surrounded by four detectives and a squad of secret police, stomped into the Lutheran Synod Hall, demanded the keys of the safe and proceeded to lay down the law. One elderly pastor remained seated at the Nazis' entrance. "ON YOUR FEET!" bellowed Dr. August Jaeger...