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...sacred area, the archaeologists supplemented their findings with photographs and maps made by earlier expeditions to Shochem by German scientists in the 1920s. These records, presumed to be lost, were found in the files of the German Evangelical Institute. The files had been stored in the basement of the Lutheran Church in Jerusalem
...Lutheran minister in Minnesota, Hauge graduated from Moorhead. Minn.'s Concordia College (class of '35), got his doctorate in economics at Harvard, and taught at both Harvard and Princeton. He was an editorial writer for McGraw-Hill's Business Week when he joined the draft-Ike movement in 1951. After six years with Ike, Hauge was lured away from the White House in 1958 when ubiquitous Wall Streeter Sidney Weinberg. a partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., persuaded him to become chairman of the finance committee at Manufacturers Trust Co. When Manufacturers merged with the Hanover Bank last...
Although Pastor Fliedner himself escorted four Lutheran deaconesses from Germany to Pittsburgh in 1849, religious organizations for women never grew in the U.S. as prosperously as they have in Europe. The Methodist Church has only about 800 deaconesses, the various Lutheran groups fewer than 700. There are about 800 Protestant Episcopal sisters in 15 orders - most of them offshoots of English convents. Why the slow growth? "It's probably because American women have greater opportunities for education and a variety of vocations are open to them," says Sister Eleanor Falk, president of the Lutheran Deaconess Conference of America...
Ecumenical Women. Many Anglican nuns are frank to admit their debt to Roman. Catholic orders. Says one mother superior: "There's hardly any difference, fundamentally, between Anglican and Catholic nuns except that they are under the Pope and we are not." Most Lutheran deaconesses, even those who wear habits, are quick to emphasize the differences between their own work and that of Catholic sisterhoods. Says Sister Falk: "We are similar and different. But when some one asks me, 'Is it like being a Catholic nun?', my standard answer is, 'I really don't know...