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...Frederick Reisz Jr., senior pastor of the University Lutheran Church, represented Harvard's United Ministries at the conference in calling for "an examination of the facts concerning handguns." Handguns are responsible for 23,000 deaths each year and their availability "cannot add to our personal or community security," he said...
Maxime Victory Rafransoa, 46, a native of Madagascar with impeccably ecumenical credentials: he was baptized a Congregationalist, raised a Presbyterian and confirmed a Lutheran. More important, in contrast to his flamboyant predecessor, Rafransoa is soft-spoken and diplomatic...
...with their faces painted a ghostly white, marched through the broad streets ten to 15 abreast. They carried signs reading ROCKETS OUT and PEACE WITHOUT WEAPONS. In the same city, just 24 hours earlier, West German Defense Minister Hans Apel was jeered into silence by a congress of devout Lutheran evangelicals, as he tried to explain his government's nuclear defense stand...
Forman's big-city experiences have radically differed from her days in South Dakota, "where the big difference between people is whether they belong to the American Lutheran Church or the Lutheran Church of America." But, in some ways she finds Harvard less advanced than Augustana. "Back home, people were thought of as people," she says. When she came here, for instance, she was surprised by the dearth of women and minorities in the classroom. "I was never really concious of being a 'woman' until I got here. I expected a lot from Harvard. I was amazed
When the pastor of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Paul arrived at the church early one morning this month, he tried not to wake the Laotian refugee family that had been staying in the basement while waiting for permanent lodging. Suddenly Cha Mang, one of the refugees, appeared and beckoned the clergyman to follow her to the room where the family, which had arrived in the U.S. just five days earlier, slept. There she pointed to the bed where her husband Lue Thao, 36, was lying. Lue Thao was not asleep; he was dead...