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...Family Survey of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod [Aug. 17] ... is not a "Kinsey for Lutherans." The sex question was only one in 50 that were asked. The questionnaire, as a whole, was less than a third of the entire research into historic doctrines and practices in the Christian church...
PAUL G. HANSEN Research Director Lutheran Family Survey St. Louis
...urging of the editors of the Christian Century, Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, retired Primate of Norway and one of six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches, set forth some of the criticisms European Christians are apt to make of American Christians "without attempting to say," wrote the bishop, "whether or not they are justified." His list...
...thousand balloons, each bearing five New Testament tracts in five languages, to be wafted across the Iron Curtain, were launched from a German football field by Evangelical Lutheran Pastor Emil Schmidt and his congregation. Financial sponsor of this spiritual airlift: U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Churches...
...good potential box office as the subject is, only a sort of minor Protestant miracle made Martin Luther possible at all. It was made for church release, and under the sponsorship of not one but five church bodies: the American Lutheran Church, the Augustana Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and the United Lutheran Church, plus the National Lutheran Council of the U.S.A. Surprisingly enough, they were able to get together on so delicate an undertaking as a movie about their founder...