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Thank you very much for your article on the Protestant sisters [Dec. 28]. In 1963 the Methodist deaconess movement in the U.S. will observe its 75th anniversary. Your article was timely for the launching of our year's observance...
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Like Roman Catholic sisters and nuns, Protestant women seeking the religious life have a wide range of vocations to choose from. There are cloistered Benedictine convents in the Church of England whose nuns attend daily Mass and recite the monastic Divine Office in English. U.S. Methodist deaconesses, on the other hand, take no vows, dress in the latest fashions (if they care to), follow no rule, and work at such chores as teaching Sunday school and visiting the sick. Coming somewhere in between are the majority of Lutheran and Reformed deaconesses: most wear some sort of distinctive garb halfway between...
Although Pastor Fliedner himself escorted four Lutheran deaconesses from Germany to Pittsburgh in 1849, religious organizations for women never grew in the U.S. as prosperously as they have in Europe. The Methodist Church has only about 800 deaconesses, the various Lutheran groups fewer than 700. There are about 800 Protestant Episcopal sisters in 15 orders - most of them offshoots of English convents. Why the slow growth? "It's probably because American women have greater opportunities for education and a variety of vocations are open to them," says Sister Eleanor Falk, president of the Lutheran Deaconess Conference of America...
...seven-LP, six-hour set of Theologian Karl Earth lecturing on evangelical theology. McCracken's current bestseller: the world-traveling Orphans' Choir from Korea. He recently started another record club, which will feature long-play sermons by Christian leaders such as Baptist Billy Graham, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, and Dr. Ralph Sockman, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Methodist Christ Church...