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...most acute difficulty is finding reliable sponsors. This is the job of nine voluntary agencies (four religious and five secular), which have offices at each of the camps. Lately they have tried to find group sponsorship within communities and churches. For example, the Lutheran voluntary agency asked 110 of its congregations in California to take on at least one Vietnamese family; so far, 90 have agreed to do so. Elsewhere, the drives have not gone as well. Says Richard D. Stahlke, head of the Lutheran refugee program in Arizona: "We've all been hearing the same objections from potential...
...priests in the church last July, but the episode typified a growing push toward clerical equality that is affecting virtually every major denomination. The United Methodist Church has 500 ordained women, up from 332 in 1970, and the United Presbyterian Church has 189, compared with 103 in 1972. The Lutheran Church in America, which began ordaining women in 1970, has 24 women in clerical posts. U.S. Judaism recently gained its second female rabbi. The number of women wearing the cloth is sure to expand soon because many more are in training. The proportion of women enrolled in the 195 schools...
...seven: International Rescue Committee. Inc., Church World Services, Lutheran World Council, U.S. Catholic Conference, Tolstoy Foundation, United HIAS Service, American Fund for Czech Relief...
...decree against artificial birth control and makes a strong case for Christian social involvement. Overall, the book is a useful survey of the kind of European liberalism that has guided Protestant ecumenism and that is increasingly attractive to ecumenically minded Catholics. Church Historian Martin Marty, a U.S. Lutheran, thinks that the book's "vision may be the only one open to 21st century Christians." On the other hand, it may be only the vision of an ecumenical theology, while many Protestants and Catholics cling as strongly as ever to the ideas contained in their traditional catechisms...
...psychiatrist from the University Health Services said last night at a student forum in the University Lutheran Church that depression and suicide at Harvard are often caused by a "distorted sense of importance and lack of communal experience...