Word: lutheranism
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...village there will be some men after the destruction of Nazism who will be recognized by their neighbors as decent and trustworthy. We do not know today who they are. But they will come" forward or be discovered when the Gestapo is no longer an omnipresent terror--perhaps a Lutheran pastor, a former burgomasters, a postman or other civil servant a decent army officer or soldier who is disillusioned about militarism, a former trade-unionist, or a brother or father who returns from a Nazi concentration camp...
There was also expediency. Of the city's 23 Lutheran churches (evangelical), only one now belongs to the Council. The others are being coaxed to join. Since the city's nine Christian Science and nine Mormon churches (nonevangelical) have not shown much interest in the Council, the whole matter might seem to resolve itself into one simple question: Does the Council want 22 new Lutheran members or two Unitarian...
Parse Parisius was reared on a Wisconsin farm, taught in Northwestern (Wis.) College, was a Lutheran pastor in Rice Lake, Wis., directed Farm Security work in Wisconsin, before becoming assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. He got to be associate director of Agricultural War Relations last June, when Claude Wickard set up the ineffectual Food Requirements Committee...
...members), which in 1931 united the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620 with a Methodist offshoot founded in North Carolina in 1793. The other is the Evangelical and Reformed Church (685,571 members), formed in 1934 by combining the Evangelical Synod (a Midwestern fusion of Lutheran and Calvinistic thought, not to be confused with the Evangelical Church, which is Methodistic) and the Reformed Church in the U.S. (a Calvinistic-German-Swiss group strong in Pennsylvania and Ohio, not to be confused with the "Dutch" Reformed Church in America, which centers in Manhattan...
...passed, to the surprise of many a Protestant leader present. One of them smiled, said the gesture was like "serving ham to a Catholic on Friday." Catholics had provided both meal and cigars, so everybody laughed and went right on talking shop-Roman Catholic to Methodist, Jew to Episcopalian, Lutheran to Congregationalist...