Word: lutheranism
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...Montagnard refugees from the Central Highlands of Vietnam stream down the arrival-lounge escalator to be met by white-haired American ladies wearing housedresses and blowsy men waving American flags. Joyful members of North Carolina's 3,000-strong Montagnard community are on hand, as are relief workers from Lutheran Family Services who bustle about, counting heads and arranging transportation that will ferry the refugees to their new lives in the land of pickup trucks and strip malls...
...church, along with his family, has always been at the center of Reichert's life. "I can't imagine going through life without faith," he says. His grandfather was a Lutheran pastor, and Reichert attended Concordia University, a Lutheran college in Portland, Ore., intending to follow the same path. But he left school to get married, in 1970. After a spell in the Air Force as a mechanic, he joined the King County sheriff's department, which covers Seattle and extends south of the airport, over what was once open land. He found himself drawn to murders. "Homicide...
...Mattie J. Germer ’03, that was exactly the matter. Raised Lutheran, she had briefly considered converting to Catholicism in high school, but eventually abandoned the idea. She stopped going to church completely and considered herself an agnostic. “I thought religion was a sham,” she recalls. “An interesting sham, and a culturally relevant sham, but not something I really wanted to believe...
...bequest amounting to about $400,000, a woman who last attended University Lutheran Church (UniLu) in the late 1940s unexpectedly named the Harvard Sqaure church as the residual beneficiary of her estate...
...continued to be active in the Lutheran church until her death in February 2001, but she lost touch with UniLu. Her only remaining connection with the Harvard Square church was the yearly brochure that arrived to inform alumni about recent news in order to solicit contributions, said Warren Himmelberger, a member of the UniLu congregation who had known Edwards during her years with the church...