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Augustana Lutheran Mission Hiroshima-Ken, Japan...
Birth control was unanimously approved last week by the 95th annual convention of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (500,000 members), meeting in Los Angeles. Said the resolution: "An unrestrained production of children without realistic regard to God-given responsibilities involved in rearing children . . . may be as sinful and as selfish ... as is the complete avoidance of parenthood . . . The power to reproduce is His blessing, not a penalty, upon the sexual relationship in marriage...
Citation: "A native son of the land of the Reformation, and a 20th century example of what he calls the 'Protestant principle' . . . The product of a Lutheran parsonage, he has served his fellow men on the battlefield, in the pulpit, and in the lecture halls . . . He is at one with the skeptical, the lonely, the empty-hearted contemporary man, and yet he speaks out of the assurance of faith...
Commandment 8-a. In Levittown, Pa., thefts of top soil from the grounds of the Hope Lutheran Church stopped after the Rev. Charles L. Ertman posted a sign reading: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL CHURCH TOP SOIL...
Tillich has pioneered in studies on the relationship of theology to philosophy, history, and psychology. Theologically, he has drawn on both Calvinist and Lutheran traditions, and he stands, in the contemporary Protestant theological circle, between the neo-orthodox and the liberal...