Word: lutheranism
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...catch his hero's performance. "Any mulligans?" hollered Barry jovially to the crowd. But he certainly didn't need any free shots, slamming 200-yd. drives until on the sixth hole he hooked the ball into the spectators, specifically Wilbur Allen. Allen ended up in Mesa Lutheran Hospital with several stitches in his cheek; but medicare hasn't gained a partisan, for Goldwater is footing the bills...
Realities & Fantasies. The pastor's latest blastled a government spokesman to suggest that it would be wiser to ignore the thoughts of a man "who cannot always distinguish clearly between realities and fantasies." Hannover's Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje called ballot invalidation "a mistaken means of striving for peace." Hamburg Theologian-Preacher Helmut Thielicke said: "Niemöller is a typical German, who has no sense for compromise." But German church leaders, though embarrassed by Niemöller's political views, have never moved to depose him because of his international prestige. At 73, he has retired...
...town's Mexican grande dame and of its late county sheriff (whose memory had been honored with Ben's appointment to the bench), he just can't seem to cope in courtship or in the court. As a suitor, he wavers between the comely Lutheran schoolteacher, who, he fears, after their first kiss, "lay awake all night awaiting labor pains," or a Mexican cousin he "would have ravished, in Fielding's glorious words," only to be prevented by her "timely compliance." His confusion leads him to doubt his capacity to love at all. But his wrestlings...
There is nothing unBiblical in this conception of the Christ. After all, notes Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty, "when they asked Jesus what it was all about, he told the story of the Good Samaritan." St. Paul informed the church of Philippi that "Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant." According to Matthew, Jesus warned his disciples: "The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve." And he wished that the church follow...
...church today has its share of experiments looking ahead to the 21st century. In Germany, for example, the Protestant Evangelical Academies bring Christians together for weekend seminars to discuss, on a thoroughly professional level, such secular issues as urban planning and traffic problems. Mainz-Kastel is the center of Lutheran Pastor Horst Symanowski's yearly industrial seminar for ministers, who divide