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Judged from the scene as the board met, it might have been a good-fellowship meeting. In the recreation basement of Milwaukee's Pentecost Lutheran Church last week, seven men sat around a quadrangle of folding banquet tables beneath a large sign that read "Jesus Lives." Gaily colored paper plates dangled from the ceiling. In walked a smiling, stocky young man with crew-cut black hair, coatless and carrying a briefcase. One of the men rose and shook his hand...
...with the briefcase, the Rev. George Crist Jr., 31-year-old pastor of LUTHERAN HERESY TRIBUNAL & PASTOR CRIST Where is up? Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Durham, Wis., was on trial for heresy. The seven men at the table were Lutheran ministers chosen to carry out the first formal trial for heresy ever held in the 60-year history of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America, largest (membership: 2,061,004) group of Lutheran synods in the U.S. The charge: "Holding, teaching and preaching doctrines in convict with the Lutheran faith...
...member Lutheran Missouri Synod launched a "Senior Citizens' Project" to take systematic advantage of the spare time and energy of its elder laymen for "God-pleasing endeavors." The synod's Laymen's League will probably appropriate $10,000 to begin the project, prepare a manual to suggest jobs that will benefit both churches and oldsters...
...Meeting in St. Paul, delegates to the 96th annual synod of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (membership: 516,968, fifth largest of the 18 Lutheran bodies in the U.S.) pondered the current shortage of pastors (857 available for 1,211 congregations), protested that "political expediency" in Washington has held up operation of the 1953 Refugee Relief Act, re-elected the Rev. Dr. Oscar A. Benson of Minneapolis for his second four-year term as president. Hottest issue of the convention was a proposal made by the United Lutheran Church in America (membership: 2,061,004) that Augustana join with U.L.C.A...
...generation Socialist born in Wheeling, W. Va., Walter Philip Reuther was bred to worship God and to translate brotherhood into Socialist terms. His grandfather Jacob was a German Social Democrat who emigrated to the U.S. in 1892 to save his sons from military service. Jacob Reuther, a white-bearded Lutheran patriarch, often conducted Sunday services for his family at his farmhouse near Effingham, Ill. He felt that some churches "do too much for God and not enough for man"; he believed: "To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of God are alike impossible." Walter Reuther...