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Stendahl, who served as dean of the Divinity School for II years until 1979, left for Stockholm last tall at a time when the Evangelical Lutheran Church--one of the world's last remaining state-controlled churches--was experiencing a sharp drop in popularity...
...undergraduates who participate every day social action and community throughout the Cambridge and greater Boston area? About 40 student the Food Salvage program, which transports food which would otherwise have been wasted from Square restaurants and Harvard University Food Services kitchens to the shelter for the homeless in University Lutheran Church, where it feeds up to 30 hungry people every day. Over 100 students run the shelter, which houses 24 each winter night. Harvard volunteers make up the large part of the staff of Tutoring Plus, an enrichment center for Cambridge children in Central Square. There are Harvard students...
...scene was a basement lounge in St. John's Lutheran Church in McCandless, Pa. Ten clergy and five laity met last week around tables arranged in the shape of a horseshoe for the second ecclesiastical trial in the history of the 23-year-old, 3 million-member Lutheran Church in America. Their verdict: the Rev. D. Douglas Roth, 33, ex-pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Clairton, Pa., was to be defrocked...
After the verdict, Roth charged that his bishop was "supporting corporate attacks." Bishop May contends, however, that many Lutheran ministers around the U.S. have joined protest marches or spoken out against social injustice without interference from the church. Says May: "There's no problem because they are not dividing and destroying their parishes...
Roth, now suspended from all clerical duties, will appeal to a regional Lutheran convention in June, but that body is expected to confirm the defrocking. This week he faces another appearance in secular court. Meanwhile, Lutheran investigations have begun of parishioners' complaints against two other D.M.S. clergy: William Rex Jr. of Trafford and Daniel Solberg of Allison Park. D.M.S. backers are considering further church protests...