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Many women's shelters share space with men's shelters, like the University Lutheran Church Shelter where women must shower in the men's bathroom. Fels, co-director of the University Lutheran Church Shelter, has known women who could not function so close to men, preventing them from taking advantage of the shelter's program...
...full force of what happens when those supports do give out struck Fels when she met a young woman at University Lutheran whom Fels feels is much like herself...
...Thanksgiving in 1991, Patricia Newlin, a lapsed Lutheran, met a young co- worker, a born-again Christian, on a business trip to Paris. They walked along the Seine in the shadow of Notre Dame and discussed the idea that we all carry around with us a God-shaped vacuum and try unceasingly to fill it with other things. "That notion just struck an incredibly responsive chord in me," remembers Newlin. She realized that she "had created an idol out of work, had sacrificed my time and effort to it, and it stopped working." She was baptized in January...
...religion as a series of marketing coups. Historian Martin E. Marty summarized their interpretation: "No God or religion or spirituality, no issue of truth or beauty or goodness, no faith or hope or love, no justice or mercy; only winning and losing in the churching game matters." Marty, a Lutheran, remarks that it is "lethal" to reshape churches around the claims of returnees who are ignorant of the heritage, or to capitulate to a "random selection of cravings, nurtured by non-Christian and anti-Christian forces...
ABORTION IS NO LONGER A "CATHOLIC ISSUE" IN THE U.S. -- if it ever was. Last September the biggest Lutheran body adopted a moderate pro-life policy. Two months ago, the Southern Baptist Convention filed its first joint Supreme Court brief alongside Catholics, urging abolition of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. The United Methodist Church almost pulled out of a pro-choice lobby it helped establish...