Word: lutheranism
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Last month, for example, the Episcopal diocese of New York appointed a blue-ribbon panel of lawyers to determine whether the church should pay taxes on its property. Similar investigations have been undertaken in recent years by the Baptists, the American Lutheran Church, the United Presbyterian Church and the National Council of Churches. By and large, the studies have ended in demands for more study-largely because the clergymen themselves are bitterly divided about whether they should pay any taxes, and on what property...
...from being a grind, Daisy sings in a Lutheran church choir, takes lessons in both voice and piano. Her father, who died in 1964, was a composer, conductor and pianist. Her mother teaches piano, and her brother Walter topped his class at Columbia University in 1962. Mrs. Hilse says, not immodestly, that Daisy's scholarship "just comes naturally...
...Younger ministers, on the other hand, would be far more likely to cite a book that is scarcely more than an elliptical fragment of theology, since it was never intended for publication at all. It is the Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the now-famed German Lutheran pastor who was arrested and later executed by the Nazis...
...distinctions between Roman Catholic and Protestant worship once symbolized the split between the churches; increasingly, they now express the churches' growth toward unity. In the chapel at the Jesuit University of Santa Clara recently, a Lutheran minister presided as a mixed congregation of Catholics and Protestants recited his church's version of vespers; a priest and a Baptist minister alternated reading the lessons. Last fall, in Boca Raton, Fla., an Anglican priest celebrated Mass before another interfaith group, using a new canon, or prayer of consecration, composed by a Dutch Jesuit...
...CLYDE SHOWALTER Red Hill Lutheran Church Tustin, Calif...