Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There have been some people who have urged that the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod link up with other church bodies in order to have the strength of greater numbers. You hear the argument again and again that then there would be greater financial strength, or that you could make greater and more effective impacts on the community or the nation or the world...
Clergymen of the area tend to blame such doings on religious apathy. "Church customs have mostly become hardened forms of hollow traditions," says Pastor Wolfgang Baader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. "He who does not believe in God must fear the Devil." But though authorities shake their heads at witch talk, they shrug their shoulders over what to do about it and point to the case of Farmer Bading of Lüneberg Heath. Hannes Bading called in a witch doctor to fix up his ailing stock, his failing crops, his drying well. The Hexenmeister sold him some "letters from...
Faced with a rise in divorce, the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church in 1946 liberalized its marriage canon; bishops got authority to decide whether or not divorced people could be remarried in church. Faced with a similar divorce rise, the synod of Germany's United Evangelical Lutheran Church has decided to do just the opposite. Last week a new, more stringent set of marriage regulations went into effect for 18 million German Lutherans...
...Neighbors in Northlake, including Chief Heck, pledged their homes to raise Raboski's $15,000 bail, drafted a clemency appeal to California's Governor Earl Warren. "We plan to do everything we can to stand back of him," said the Rev. Milan Swasko, pastor of the local Lutheran church. "This community can't afford to lose...
Idea of America. In Illinois, all this is perfectly acceptable: to save them the cost of maintaining both public and parochial schools, the state allows about 18 predominantly Catholic communities to combine the two. But acceptable or not, the Lutheran Larsons did not like the setup. "It seems to me," said Dorothy Larson, "that it's part of America that a public school is one thing and a parochial school is another. When nuns are the teachers in a public school and the atmosphere is all Catholic, then that's getting the idea of America all mixed...