Word: lutheranism
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...suit of one Gladys Sundseth of Minneapolis for a divorce from her husband Arnold has assumed large significance in the annals of the Lutheran Church. Called as a witness at the hearings last fortnight was Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson, Augustana Synod, who was questioned as follows...
...stirring case in the Northwest where hundreds of thousands of good Lutherans (third largest U. S. Protestant denomination) take their private troubles to their men of God. Rev. B. E. Bergesen, of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, gave comfort to the faithful...
...State had argued that there is nothing in the constitution of the Lutheran Augustana Synod which would forbid a pastor from revealing information given to him at a confessional. Judge Guilford said he did not regard the Lutheran confession as binding upon the pastor, as is the Catholic confession. To this line of reasoning, the Rev. Leonard Kendall, a colleague of Pastor Swenson, replied...
...regarded by pastors and parishioners as protection from the pryings of the law. But Judge Guilford of Minneapolis construed the matter otherwise. Arnold Sundseth, he pointed out, had sought his pastor's advice entirely of his own volition, he was not obligated by any rule of the Lutheran church to make any sort of a confession. The statute therefore, did not apply. While many a U. S. Lutheran waited to hear whether his voluntary confessions to his pastor might some day be exposed before all men, Pastor Swenson was given a 30-day stay and his lawyers went...
...each other with some sort of grunts-umfa umfa-glug glug." Thus did a Perth Amboy, N. J. public school teacher read last week to her sixth grade pupils. One little girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages from the book, A Child's History of the World. Said he: ". . . There is plenty of other stuff to teach." (He is author of After Its Kind, considered authoritative by antievolutionists...