Word: lutheranism
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...familiar to the point of triteness. Grey-haired, spectacled "Luddy" Schlekat, a local boy of good upbringing, started at the bank soon after he got out of high school. He worked hard, married a nice girl, sired two nice children, bought a nice house, went to the First Evangelical Lutheran Church regularly, joined the Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce...
Before the Lutheran Institute on Race Relations in Valparaiso, Ind., Professor Alvin William Rose of the North Carolina College for Negroes said last week: "The Christian Church is America's most segregated institution. More than 96% of American Negroes and whites worship in [separated] churches. It is tragic that of all our institutions, the Christian Church should be the most unchristian...
Twenty-four hours later, tribesmen found the Great Republic smashed to bits near the top of a 1,500-foot hill, 45 miles north-northeast of Roberts Field. A chieftain reported the find to a Lutheran missionary who directed search parties to the scene. Of the plane's 40 passengers and crew, all were dead...
...Lutheran Bishop Berggrav's subject, now even more than in the days of Hitler, is one of the most crucial and inescapable religious problems of the times: How does a Christian face a totalitarian state...
...Word & Suffering. Berggrav's book closes with a dramatic lecture which was illegally distributed in Norway during the Nazi occupation. Citing text after Lutheran text, it effectively scotches the theory that Luther enjoined obedience to all governments, whether good or bad. In the grip of a state he knows to be evil, there is only one thing Christians can do -speak out and suffer the consequences...