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...reaction among farmers was exemplified in a cartoon by E.A. Harris, which showed a startled rooster rather lamely explaining to a quizzical hen"Nobody told me about Daylight Saving!" Attendance at some churches in New York City was off. Explained the Rev. Frank Walinski of St. Peter's Lutheran Church: "If you want a personal opinion, it's hard as hell to get up in the morning." In Baltimore, most of the prominently placed public clocks were not turned ahead immediately; because their lights had been turned off to conserve energy, the clocks were unreadable in the morning...
...some 230 PBS stations across the country. The series does not try to be a comprehensive sampling of U.S. religion. Roman Catholicism is represented by a Trappist monastery and a Mexican American parish, mainstream Protestantism by Manhattan's posh St. James' Episcopal Church and a Midwest Lutheran parish, the Jews by a Hasidic sect. Two segments are about black Christianity, one about a Jesus commune, one on Kundalini yoga. But the series' special focus is not on ways of worship but on individuals who have faith...
Deli Prayers. In an engaging segment called "Crow River Christmas," the camera records the life of a Lutheran congregation, mostly Swedish American, in a small Minnesota farming community. There is a Norman Rockwell family dinner, with the pastor leading a round of Swedish songs, and a young boy walking through the snowy woods, talking about his faith as if it were the most natural thing in the world. "What would you do without Jesus?" he asks. "How would you get along...
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: Banchetto Musicale, Bach and Buxtehude, Daniel Stepner, Baroque flute; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; martin Pealmean, harpsichord, and others...
What happened? For one thing, admits the Rev. T.A. Raedeke, Lutheran executive director of Key 73, "it was a fiasco financially." Organizers had hoped for at least $2,000,000 for the national campaign; less than $600,000 materialized. Most of the money went for a television special and other activities of "Launch Weekend" a year ago. Local and regional groups, though, spent at least $10 million...