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Brown studied at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, spent twelve years as a pastor in Ripon, Wis., Oak Park, Ill., and Portland, Ore., before his election in 1895 as administrative secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. "A divided church cannot save the world," Brown said, and with that in mind he helped organize one of the landmark events of 20th century Christian history: the Ecumenical Missionary Conference of 1900, which took the first major step toward ending the wasteful competition of church missions...
Within the Anglican Communion, the Rome-admiring Oxford movement led, in mid-19th century, to a revival of both monks and nuns. The modern deaconess movement began with the Rev. Theodor Fliedner (1800-64), pastor of a Lutheran parish in the German town of Kaisers-werth. Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France's St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans for a Protestant Association of Christian Nursing; by 1849 he had brought Lutheran deaconesses to France, Britain...
...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...
...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...
...PASTOR Louis GOERTZ Mennonite Brethren Church Henderson...