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...door of their flat and drives his Volkswagen to the city's Vantor parish church, where he is a curate. Barbro, 30, spends an hour or so with her son Krister and then goes across her garden to the Essinge parish church, where she is assistant pastor...
...DAVID L. SCHEIDT Pastor The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Living Word Roslyn...
Despite his Romish ways, Father Kreinheder, 57, has a deeply rooted Lutheran faith; his father was a Missouri Synod pastor, and his mother's family founded a Lutheran congregation near Waynesboro, Va., before the American Revolution. After serving as the skipper of a subchaser during World War II, Kreinheder increasingly felt a vocation to the church, but found the opportunities within U.S. Lutheranism too restricted. Then he read (in TIME, Aug. 2, 1948) about the famed French Protestant religious community at Taiz...
...Instead, the Rev. Eugene Turner simply moves among the development homes, offering his help, and only incidentally guiding the religiously inclined to the church of their choice. "Mine is a ministry of mobility," he says. "I can most successfully meet these people without the traditional institutional forms." In Denver, pastors are worrying about how to reach families living in the anonymity of tall new apartment buildings. "They are sealed in their apartments," says Dr. Paul Noren, the Augustana Lutheran pastor who is president of the Denver Area Council of Churches, "but they are a responsibility of the church." To reach...
...even as they criticize, these clerics note that since the church-going boom ended, the nation's great religious bodies have begun to face up to realities. Many pastors believe that their churches will be more relevant, and accomplish more good, with a committed core of true believers. "The church is moving inward," says Dr. Blake Smith, pastor of Austin's University Baptist Church. "There are a great many experiments, little trailblazers, to rediscover the reality that lies beneath the outward structure...