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...came from a devout, practicing Lutheran family. We always went to church at least once a week and my parents occasionally taught Sunday school. My religious education began with my dad reading Bible verses to me as soon as he knew I was within my mother’s womb and has never stopped. While children from other families went to sleep to fairy tales and the like, the days of my three siblings and I ended with stories from the Bible or from the biographies of famous Christians—Louis Pasteur, Isaac Newton, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther...
...didn’t learn the Bible solely for rhetorical flourish; we believed it as well. While many Catholics and Protestants believe the Bible to be God’s inerrant and infallible Word (which reveals God’s law and salvation through Jesus Christ), Lutherans are among the Protestants who believe in sola scriptura, that is, that the Bible is the only document of divine revelation and that it is the sole norm and basis of Christian doctrine, as opposed to Catholics who believe that God has revealed doctrine through Tradition as well. Because of sola scriptura, many...
...fourth grade, my parents enrolled me in Lutheran grade school. My new peers often failed to recognize the value of scriptural knowledge as my homeschool peers had, but my pastors and teachers usually did. Through four more years of Lutheran catechesis I mastered the Scriptures and the doctrines that Lutherans draw from them and grew greatly in my faith in Jesus Christ and salvation through Him. In my confirmation during my eighth-grade year, I proposed a new theme for my profession of faith speech “What the Scriptures mean to me.” Mine...
Anarchy, yes, but anarchy by design. An organization called Direct Action Against the War was loosely responsible for the San Francisco protests. Its leaders picked a time, sent e-mail to sympathetic groups as disparate as Food Not Bombs and the Lutheran Peace Fellowship and organized a 10-minute orientation at Justin Herman Plaza on the tenets of civil disobedience (and on the importance of preparing a sound bite if you are arrested near a camera crew). Then the groups scattered. Police couldn't follow the mob because the mob was everywhere and nowhere, working in tiny, constantly evolving cells...
Margaret Lumsdaine, a Lutheran pastor and coordinator of the Military Globalization Project, thinks mass protests are misguided for a different reason. "How can we think we are actually going to overtake a mind-set of war by just waving some signs around?" she asks. "It seems to make sense not to block the streets for people going to work but to block the communications systems that are implementing this war." On Saturday Lumsdaine was one of two dozen people who planned to trespass onto the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California, which acts as a weapons-guidance...