Word: lutheranism
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Again, as a onetime Lutheran Sunday-school teacher, Almond is genuinely devout. He gets real pleasure out of troweling around with roses, peonies and irises, because "among my flowers I can always feel the presence of deity." He would be horrified if accused of un-Christian prejudice. Yet in fact he springs from the same land and loins as his blood brother, Joseph...
Life among the Swedish Lapps who roam the tundras above the Arctic Circle was a dolorous affair a century ago. As a result, the Lapps drowned their sorrows in barrels of aquavit. Then into the Laplanders' midst came Lars Levi Laestadius, famed botanist and Lutheran minister, with a message of hellfire and brimstone of such urgency that it sobered up Laplanders by the hundreds, set off a revivalist movement that is still a major force for morality and sobriety...
...Protestant Council of the City of New York, the United Lutheran Church in America, the New York Congregational Church Association, the Presbytery of New York and the New York Board of Rabbis promptly jumped on Jacobs' ruling as imposing a minority's moral theology on the majority; the National Councils of Catholic Women and Men and the Catholic Physicians' Guilds of New York sprang to the support of Dr. Jacobs. New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner bucked the question to the hospital department. "As a practicing Catholic," Wagner said, he is opposed...
...below-zero Sunday 40-odd years ago, a Lutheran minister made his way across frozen snowdrifts in a horse and buggy to keep his preaching schedule at five different churches in and around Hawley, Minn. In the winter and spring of 1958, the minister's son, Presidential Assistant Gabriel Hauge, showed the same old-fashioned fortitude in the face of icy winds of another kind. With the U.S. economy slipping downward, panicky cries for drastic federal intervention rang out in Washington and across the U.S. But calm, articulate Gabriel Hauge, sometime economics teacher at Princeton and Harvard, economics assistant...
...Henceforth he will be allowed to preach only on the specific invitation of a Lutheran church, which he is not expected to seek, since he wants to avoid further trouble for his fellow pastors. But, while he may be a man without a church, he will never be without a flock. He is, in the view of one of his pastors, the most popular man in Hungary today...