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...that there is a nationwide Fellowship of St. Luke, which claims more than 20,000 members. Denominational leaders are considerably less enthusiastic about glossolalia, which is usually carried on by small groups, led as often as not by laymen outside the confines of the church. In Los Angeles alone, Lutheran Minister Rodney Lensch claims, there are hundreds of glossolalia cells. One of the few parishes that openly espouses the charismatic approach is the Church of the Good Shepherd in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Its pastor, the Rev. Lloyd Weber of the United Church of Christ, had long been interested...
...that it is fundamentally an unhealthy cult experience, which tends to separate the gifted illuminati from the majority of believers. California Psychologist Dr. Paul Morentz believes that it thrives among insecure personalities who are in desperate need of certitude. On the other hand, the Rev. Larry Christianson of Trinity Lutheran Church in San Pedro, Calif., contends that the gifts are "God's answer to the hyperintellectualism of our age" and the cold impersonality of formal worship. Surprisingly, even some Roman Catholic participants at the Dayton conference were cautiously optimistic about the prospect of incorporating glossolalia and healing into...
...Franklin Clark Fry, it was unthinkable that God's business should be carried out with less professional dispatch than man's. Gavel in hand, he presided over ecumenical gatherings or sessions of his Lutheran Church in America with the cool parliamentary aplomb of a Speaker of the House-a job for which many of his clerical admirers thought him well-suited. Yet he was also a man of deep faith who saw the unification of divided Christendom as a divine imperative for the twentieth century. When he died of cancer last week at the age of 67, seven...
...grandson of Lutheran ministers, Fry was born in Bethlehem, Pa., and attended Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Pa., where he proved to be something of a campus rebel by leading a student protest for curriculum reform. Ordained in 1925, he spent 15 years as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Akron, resigning in 1944 to become president of the United Lutheran Church, a predecessor of the L.C.A...
Squirting Grease. "I would much rather have a pastorate," Fry once said, "than have to squirt grease into ecclesiastical machinery." Yet at the job of making churches run he had no peer. He served for six years as president of the Lutheran World Federation, which has 72 million members in 43 countries, and was also a founder-and lifetime president-of Lutheran World Relief, which last year sent $3,000,000 to aid victims of disaster and poverty around the world. In addition to governing his own denomination, he served for the last 14 years as chairman of the World...