Word: lutheranism
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Although Adams remained close at hand, he no longer took an active part in the negotiations. Adams was not the first clergyman that Wilson forced from the reservation. Rev. Paul Boe, a Lutheran minister, left Pine Ridge during the third week of the occupation after Wilson allegedly threatened him with physical violence. Wilson denied Boe's charges...
Died. Dr. Kent S. Knutson, 48, a chemical engineer who entered the ministry at 23 in response to what he termed a "haunting call" from God, and in 1970 was elected president of the 2.5 million-member American Lutheran Church; of a rare disease of the central nervous system; in Minneapolis. An energetic, scholarly theologian, Knutson won the presidency from nine older candidates after the first open political campaigning in the denomination's history...
Parvey was an editor of the Divinity School Bulletin and a staff member in the 1968 McCarthy for President campaign. She belongs to the University Lutheran Church in Cambridge...
Stendahl said the number of female ministers in the Protestant church is growing. "It is late in coming, but when it happens, all denominations open up," he added. Parvey is the fifth female minister in the Lutheran Church...
...same way as Americans had harassed Ingrid Bergman 22 years before. Letters came in denouncing her as a sinner and a whore. Some told her that she should take the baby into the woods and leave it; others kindly suggested that she should kill herself as well. The Lutheran Church refused to allow the baby to be baptized. Liv went on Norwegian TV to defend her action in an emotion-charged statement. Though she still believes she acted morally and honestly in not marrying Bergman-"I feel it would be very difficult to twice stand...