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...committee plans to open two shelters, one at the University Lutheran Church on Winthrop St. and one at St. Mary's Orthodox Church in Central Square. Last winter, Harvard Divinity student Stewart Guernsey opened a shelter at the University Lutheran Church. The Committee for the Homeless plans to re-open that shelter this January...
There are several other homeless shelters in the Boston area. Shelter, Incorporated, a private organization, operates a shelter in Boston and one in Cambridge and plans on opening a third in Cambridge. Two other shelters are open in Boston, according to Pastor Fred Reese of the University Lutheran Church. These are frequented by street alcoholics and drug users, making them undesirable to many street people...
...within their existing facilities and some outside. Humana Inc., a hospital chain based in Louisville, reports that 76 of its more than 90 hospitals have established "day surgery" centers. "It's one of the fastest growing services we have," says Chris Wurster, a spokesman for Denver's Lutheran Medical Center, which is building a $14.6 million outpatient surgical wing. The competition between conventional hospitals and surgical centers is fierce, but the winners, most observers agree, are the patients, who now have more and better choices for minor surgery than ever before. - By Claudia Wallis...
There was a flurry of excitement at the assembly involving a nonpolitical document titled "Witnessing in a Divided World." Bishop Per Lonning of the Church of Norway (Lutheran) called it a "dangerous setback," because it showed a "lack of missionary urgency" and did not emphasize the uniqueness of Christianity. Agreeing, the delegates voted nearly unanimously for a revision, but in dealing with a bushel of political statements on everything from nuclear arms (yes to a freeze) to Palestinian rights (an emphatic endorsement), they never had a chance to act on the rewritten statement. Nonetheless, the delegates were enthusiastic about...
...movement plans to redouble its efforts for a human-life amendment. "The rulings should stimulate the efforts of those of us advocating a constitutional amendment," says the Rev. Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority. In St. Louis this week, the bells of Roman Catholic, Baptist, and Missouri Synod Lutheran churches will peal at 5 p.m. each day to show support for the measure...