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Appointed Rounds. In Atlanta, Postman Walter A. Smith entered the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, tiptoed up to the Rev. Charles Anders and handed him a special-delivery letter in the middle of a sermon, later explained when reprimanded: "I looked in and saw he wasn't praying...
...Rigolo; Columbus, Ohio's St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Brooks and Coddington; Edmond, Okla.'s Hopewell Baptist Church, Bruce Goff; St. Louis' Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord, Murphy and Mackey; Springfield, Mass.'s Congregation Beth El, Percival Goodman; Tucson's Faith Lutheran Church, Arthur T. Brown; Pacific Palisades, Calif.'s St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons; Midland, Mich.'s St. John's Lutheran Church, Alden B. Dow; Houston's St. John the Divine, Fred J. MacKie and Karl F. Kamrath with...
Pastor Crist is to be respected for holding firm to his personal convictions, else would we be instrumental in restoring our church to the totalitarianism of Rome On the other hand, we cannot permit the personal convictions of our pastors to be aired from the dedicated Lutheran pulpit, lest we bring down on ourselves the confusion of Canterbury...
...John Gerberding of Menomonee Falls, Wis. was acquitted by a trial committee of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church of heresy charges similar to those for which the Rev. George P. Crist Jr. of Durham was convicted (TIME, Aug. 8). The committee found "obvious confusion, immaturity and inconsistencies in Gerberding's position and recommended administrative action by the synod. Pastor Grist's comment: "The trial was considerably different from mine...
...Membership in Lutheran churches of the U.S. and Canada increased by 248,840 last year, to reach a new high of 7,117,906, the National Lutheran Council reported. Area of greatest growth: the powerful (2,001,135) Missouri Synod, which gained 84,625 baptized members...