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...always recommended that I keep my options open), I won a partial scholarship to Detroit Catholic Central High School, which was far closer and had many more course offerings than the Lutheran high school I would otherwise have attended. (Catholic Central also had a powerhouse football program.) Though my pastor feared that going to a Catholic school would confuse my Lutheran mind, I enrolled...
...that I didn’t know offhand, but would be sure to check and get back to him. And check I did: in the course of the next few months I consulted my family, reread the New Testament and called a Harvard friend who is now a Lutheran pastor. In the end I had to concede his point. Verses such as II Thessalonians 2:15 and John 21:25 give far stronger evidence that Christian truth is not restricted to the Bible than II Timothy 3:16–17 give that...
...Peter’s parish near the Quad, where 50 to 100 Harvard students worship every week, according to James Roosevelt ’68, grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a resident of Cambridge. Roosevelt says he and a group of parishioners asked their pastor to dismiss the Opus Dei priest. The pastor, he says, consented...
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...
...week's end, Jackson's role had left bad feelings among some segments of African-American Chicago, precipitating rare open criticism of the civil rights leader. Alderman Madeline Haithcock said Jackson was "with the victims one minute, holding prayer vigils" and "with his friends the next," and Pastor Lance Davis of the J. Claude Allen CME church called Jackson's actions "disingenuous." He wants an investigation too--into Jackson. --By David E. Thigpen/Chicago