Word: lutheranism
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...parish. He travels regularly to both the Anglican and United Church synod meetings, stressing the Holy Trinity success as proof that the long-discussed union of the United Church* and the Church of England in Canada can be made to work. "God is neither Anglican, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran nor United Church," he says. "Union ... is possible as we have it here...
...last-moment hitch developed in the well-laid wedding plans of Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 41, and Hollywood Dancer Patrice Wymore, 23, when a French Lutheran clergyman suddenly withdrew the use of his church. The twice-divorced groom scurried about, thought he had found another, an abandoned church in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Other reported plans: a civil ceremony in Monaco with an army guard of honor, peasants dancing in the streets, followed by a one-day honeymoon, the shortest of Flynn's career...
...nine days in Des Moines' KRNT Theater, the 600 delegates to the 17th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church in America gathered for nine purposeful hours a day. Moaned one weary churchman: "This is almost as bad as Congress...
U.L.C.A., largest (nearly 2,000,000 members) of the 18 Lutheran groups in the U.S., had talked for years of church unity. This year the delegates voted the United Lutherans into the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.* Thus, for the first time in its history, U.L.C.A. became a full member of an interdenominational U.S. Protestant agency...
With that much accomplished, the convention turned to the perennial problem of unity among Lutherans. It dutifully approved two resolutions favoring union, but U.L.C.A.'s president, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, was not very hopeful. While deploring the "American Lutheran habit of living in fractions," he predicted that "prospects for any broad merger ... are likely to be deferred . . . probably for a full generation...