Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franz Rosenzweig, a German Jew, decided to become a Christian. Before he could be taken into the Lutheran Church, he dropped in for the 1913 Yom Kippur services at a little Berlin synagogue. Nobody is certain what thoughts and feelings the services gave him, but by the time they were over, Rosenzweig had changed his mind, resolved to live his religious life as a Jew and "return to where I have been elected from birth...
...many of you will recall, we have had a great variety of covers for our Christmas issues. They have included Norway's heroic Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, who at the time (1944) was a defiant and solitary prisoner of the Nazis; Marian Anderson, around whose life and career TIME'S editors told the story of the Negro spiritual; and the late Lieut. General Lesley McNair, who as chief of Army Ground Forces in 1942 was responsible for providing some measure of Christmas cheer to 3,000,000 G.I.s...
Within a month, residents of the river Houses near Dunster Street will be shaken from their Sunday morning slumbers with still another church-bell. It will ring from the 180 foot tower of a new Lutheran church, the first in this area, that is under construction at the corner of Winthrop and Dunster Streets...
...large windows, blood wood, and a circular stairway in the parish house. A student center, located behind the main chapel, provides meeting rooms, offices, and a comfortable lounge. The basement contains a large recreation room complete with a stage. Pastor Edmond D. Steimle, who will be head of the Lutheran congregation, hopes the facilities will attract students of all sects to the church...
...church cost $225,000 to build. Finishing touches such as paint and minor carpentry work will be done by Lutheran students and other volunteers in their spare time...