Word: lutheranism
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...statement issued by the World Council of Churches from Geneva was more specifically critical of the U.S., expressing "grave concern and regret" over the decision to quarantine Cuba. One of the signers was Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, chairman of the council's central committee and president of the Lutheran Church in America...
Washington. Senator Warren G. Magnuson, a skilled politician with no pretensions to statesmanship, should defeat Richard G. Christensen, sometime Lutheran minister making his first try for office...
...Pflugerville, Texas (pop.: 400), the most important things in life, in approximate order, are chores, church and football. White-faced cattle graze on Pflugerville's gently rolling farms, and snowy cotton flourishes in the rich Blacklands soil. On the Sabbath, almost the whole town turns out at the Lutheran church. But Friday is football day, and then placid Pflugerville twangs with tension. Each time the high school's Pflugerville Panthers take the field, they carry with them the winningest record in schoolboy football. In 52 straight games, stretching back to 1957, Pflugerville High is unbeaten and untied...
...look like refugees from the Pop Warner League. Joe's cousin, Willard Hebbe, who plays slotback, weighs 135 Ibs. Freshman Lineman Danny Steger has seen action in three of the Panthers' five games this season; he weighs 90 Ibs. Says the Rev. Wilson Hill, pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, who doubles as spotter at Panther games: "There's something in these Pflugerville boys that makes them want to make contact...
...might as well get in tune and let him help." Some ministers and rabbis wonder whether this apparent ocean of national prayer is more than ankle-deep. "Prayer is often a conditioned reflex," worries Dr. Edgar S. Brown Jr., executive director of the Commission of Worship for the Lutheran Church in America. "It's a handy thing to have around in time of trouble." Other clerical skeptics argue that their congregations have lost the art of praying; worship, they say, has become placid and mechanical-as if a boxer were absently crossing himself before each round of a fight...