Word: olen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocked to hear the news of a woman's being considered for ordination in the Lutheran Church. Britta Olen says she's going to Africa to preach the word of God [Oct. 13]; yet she is doing exactly what the Bible forbids-how is she going to explain this to the natives...
...were they? Instead of a throng of putative priestesses, there seemed to be hardly any women who wanted the job; 75% of the 152 female theology students at Uppsala University were against having women in the pulpit. At week's end one candidate came forward-pretty, blonde Britta Olen, 30, daughter of a vicar and already fully qualified for ordination. Scheduled to be married by year's end and to do mission work in South Africa with her missionary husband, she hopes she will find a bishop to ordain her before she leaves...