Word: lutheranism
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...most outstanding young man in Minneapolis for 1944" turned out to be blond, strapping (6 ft. 2 in.; 205 Ibs.) Rev. Reuben Youngdahl, 33. His outstanding job: in only seven years he converted Mount Olivet Lutheran Church from a debt-ridden institution of 200 members into a booming 2,500-member parish...
Kurt von Schuschnigg, ex-Chancellor of Austria who persisted in talking back to Hitler, was reported alive in a Nazi concentration camp at Oranienburg. Believed still alive in the dreaded Dachau camp was more outspoken Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller...
...little Martensdale, Iowa (pop. 172), worshipers at St. Paul's Lutheran Church (membership: 170) will hear ten farm boys & girls and the local hardware merchant sing such stirring old favorites as Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today and Jesus Lives...
From war-wasted northern Norway came a ringing call to religious arms. Said Bishop Arne Fjellbu of the Norwegian State Church (Lutheran), in his first official statement since he returned from exile (TIME...
...newspaper accounts from the triumphant FBI, residents of James Street quickly learned more about their neighbor: he was a naturalized citizen, and a Lutheran pastor for more than 20 years in northern New Jersey, until a trip to Germany in 1941. In Berlin, said the FBI, he had talked with Walter Kappe, boss of the Nazi saboteur school. When he returned to the U.S. (via Barcelona, nine days after Pearl Harbor) he quit the pulpit, became a bookkeeper...