Word: lutheranism
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...knew Tibert V. Anderson and liked him. He was 17 when he arrived in the U.S. from his native Sweden, but his way of doing things seemed to suit his adopted country from the start. He worked in greenhouses to earn money for college, later finished courses in a Lutheran seminary, and was ordained. In 1947, after his board sent him to start a new church in Garden City South, he acted as contractor and did a lot of the work with his own hands. Last year the red brick building of St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church...
Sannwald, a member of the Class of 1926 at the Divinity School, was a visiting fellow in 1924 and '25. Later, he became pastor of a Lutheran church in Stuttgart and in January, 1942, he was taken into the German army. He was killed June 3, 1942, on the Russian front, leaving a wife and five children. After the University found out about Sannwald's death in July, 1946, his name was included in all subsequent lists of casualties...
...beginning to look as if the Rev. John Urich would never find a pulpit. Sunday after Sunday, for almost a year, he went to Lutheran churches whose pastors were leaving or sick or on vacation. Sunday after Sunday, each church thanked him very much, and that was all. His preaching was fine, they admitted, his handling of the service was perfect, but how can a minister be expected to look after the church and make the parish calls and all the other things a minister has to do-when both he and his wife are blind...
...friend told him that in the Presbyterian Church, a new minister may get a full year's trial. John Urich decided to become a Presbyterian. But when he asked the Lutheran Synod to let him go, they decided to let him try six months at Grace & St. Paul's Church on Manhattan's West 71st Street, if the congregation was willing...
This week Liibeck put its restored treasures on view as part of a combined celebration of the Marienkirche's 700th anniversary and its reopening for Lutheran services for the first time since 1942. Despite other war damage still only partially repaired, the interior of the Marienkirche looks more as its original decorators intended than it has for 500 years...