Word: lutheranism
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Early on most Friday evenings while many Harvard students are resting up for big nights of partying, a certain number of undergraduates gather together in a brightly colored room in the University Lutheran Church, a modern building next to Pinnochio's Pizza, for a somewhat less likely weekend activity. Every week, about 50 Harvard and Radcliffe students join together in that room to praise Jesus Christ...
When the Harvard Christians get together on those Friday nights in the Lutheran church, they act much as any other undergraduate organization does. They sing, and talk with friends, and prepare to go on to parties afterwards. But they are there for the most important part of their lives--the service of Christ, Duff says, "Being a Christian means my own comfort or fun or even safety is not the greatest priority in my life. Christ literally gave up his whole life for us. I think we cannot follow Christ and rule out the possibility of giving up our lives...
...cloth intrigued by that figure was the Rev. J. Russell Hale, a professor of church and society at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. Hale, 58, decided to try to find out why so many people prefer to be unchurched. Doing so he logged 30,000 miles by air, auto, foot and boat, even visiting almost inaccessible "hollers" in West Virginia and a topless bar near Sarasota, Fla. He lived for a month in each of six counties ranked by Glenmary as among the country's most irreligious.* Though social conformity makes church shunners tend to keep their views...
...Viewers" kits to 35,000 pastors and 15,000 lay leaders. The $1.50 kit includes a checklist so viewers can log incidents of violence, profanity and alcohol and sexual abuse. A more sophisticated project is "Television Awareness Training," a 16-hour course sponsored by the United Methodist Church, American Lutheran Church and Church of the Brethren. T.A.T. has trained more than 100 instructors so far, and they will begin offering classes for church and civic groups in 50 cities this month...
...Communist nation was a low-key appearance ten years ago in nonaligned Yugoslavia. The Danube tour was also a historic occasion for Graham's official host, Hungary's Council of Free Churches. It represents 50,000 Protestants, who are not only overshadowed by the major Reformed and Lutheran bodies in Hungary, but very much a minority in a country that was two-thirds Catholic at the time of the Communist takeover...