Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand balloons, each bearing five New Testament tracts in five languages, to be wafted across the Iron Curtain, were launched from a German football field by Evangelical Lutheran Pastor Emil Schmidt and his congregation. Financial sponsor of this spiritual airlift: U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Churches...
...house and discussed the Inferno. Then one of the women insisted on visiting Elizabeth Barrett Browning's grave, which was not on the official agenda at all. In Ferney, on the French-Swiss border, they saw Voltaire's chateau and talked about Candide. In Augsburg, a Lutheran pastor who spoke no English gave them a lecture on the Reformation, and they tried but failed to get into the monastery where Luther once lived. Next on the list was Faust, but since Weimar is behind the Iron Curtain, they had to settle for Frankfurt am Main, where Goethe...
...young married Lutheran men (age 16-20) admitted extramarital intercourse as against Kinsey's figure of 44% for grade-school-level, 40% for high-school-level males...
...Lutheran marriages ends in divorce, as opposed to the general Protestant average of one in ten, and the Catholic figure of one in 25 (not counting annulments...
...Based on a questionnaire given to 1% of the families in three Lutheran synods (Missouri, Augustana, Evangelical), it covers a total of 3,405 married lay people and 946 single men and women, plus 376 pastors, most of them married...