Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Dr. Alfred Kinsey's new book Sexual Behavior in the Human Female almost ready for publication, Missouri Synod Lutherans are preparing a kind of Kinsey report of their own. In 1950 the church's Triennial Convention appropriated $25,000 for a 25-man research team to investigate Biblical references and Christian teaching on marriage and family life and what Lutherans think and do about it. In charge of the survey is 38-year-old Pastor Paul Hansen of St. John's Lutheran Church in Denver, who expects to publish the full report in 1954. Among...
...Only 16% of young Lutheran bachelors (age 16-20) admit to sexual intercourse (whereas Kinsey found that, among nonchurchgoing Protestants in the same age bracket, 90% of grade-school-level males, 80% at high-school-level and 45% at college level had premarital intercourse). Among older nonmarried Lutherans (age 31-35), the figure jumped to 33% (Kinsey's figure...
...Ambassador to Ethiopia: Dr. Joseph Simonson, 49, a Lutheran clergyman from Glen Cove...
...human frailty of the clergy sometimes seems an insuperable obstacle to the coming of the Kingdom. To help keep it within bounds, one wise old Lutheran, the Rev. Walter E. Schuette, 85, has written a book called The Minister's Personal Guide (Harper...
Pastor Schuette (pronounced Shootie) has a ministerial experience of 65 years to draw on, during 28 of which he was district president of more than 200 Ohio congregations of the American Lutheran Church. Samples of his advice...