Word: lutheranism
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...things better illustrate the reason U.S. churches do not enjoy a more impressive leadership in American life than heir shilly-shallying about the war. In he eight months since Pearl Harbor, only one major denomination (the United Lutheran Church) has placed itself unequivocally behind the U.S. war effort. Yet no major church has had the courage to take the opposite stand, and state unequivocally that the church's job is religion...
...does the Norwegian Lutheran (State) Church, which last week officially renounced and denounced the state of Vidkun Quisling...
Then the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, at its biennial convention in Minneapolis, urged its 536,000 members to give "full support to the war efforts of their country with their substance and, if necessary, with their lives." Reason for this shrill small voice: the anti-Quisling stand of their mother church in Norway has convinced Norwegian Lutherans in the U.S. that militancy is the best policy...
...stippled walls and dark-painted woodwork, and the sick-sweet smell of wreaths and flowers. There, in a steel casket, the flag draped over, lay the body of Otto J. Weiner Jr., private in the Marines, killed in action on an unnamed Pacific island. American Legionnaires stood guard. A Lutheran pastor spoke the eulogy, said the prayer...
Next week that stirring scene and many another in the lives of the Muhlenberg (family-greatest in the history of U.S. Lutheranism-will be re-enacted at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. The occasion: the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the U.S. of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), sire of Washington's general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through...