Word: lutheranism
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...cases involve a conflict between two important democratic values: religious liberty and the state's obligation to ensure that children have access to a free, adequate education. All 50 states have compulsory attendance laws, and ten of them require their private schools to use state-certified teachers. Catholic, Lutheran and Jewish schools for years have accommodated state requirements. But the Protestant fundamentalists who run the new Christian schools interpret both the Bible and their mission more rigidly. The Rev. Gerald Somero, 42, minister of the Sheridan Road Baptist Church, believes that by complying with licensing requirements "we are saying...
...some cases, notably in Toledo, the state legislation is giving an extra push to experiments that were already successfully under way. City Venture Corp., founded three years ago by Control Data Corp. and other companies in cooperation with the American Lutheran Church and the United Church of Christ, is helping to revive Toledo's rundown Warren-Sherman district, where unemployment is higher than...
...Though a Lutheran seminarian, I applaud the Catholic bishops for challenging U.S. nuclear policy. It is time that religion and ethics were brought back into public discourse...
...Watergate special prosecutor, he convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that even the President was bound to submit to a subpoena for White House tapes, the eventual release of which led to Richard Nixon's resignation; of an apparent heart attack; near Wimberley, Texas. The son of an Evangelical Lutheran minister, Jaworski built a large and flourishing practice in booming Houston between assignments for the Government, which ranged from serving as a prosecutor in the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials to leading the 1977-78 House investigation in the Koreagate bribery scandal. In his tireless but meticulously fair pursuit of Nixon...
Extending their ecumenical spirit even further last week, the three Lutheran conventions authorized occasional "interim" sharing of Communion with Episcopalians, making official what already often happens unofficially in some parishes. Significantly, the Episcopal Church at its New Orleans convention overwhelmingly passed a companion measure. The actions neither establish full intercommunion nor resolve outstanding doctrinal differences. But in history's long run they could prove even more important than the moves to unite the Lutherans...