Word: synods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Power-House & Railman. Besides the 14th Century Gothic cathedral?a close copy of Canterbury?Mount Saint Alban plans call for a chapter house, administration building, synod hall, guest house, residences for canons and minor canons There are now schools for girls and boys, a college of preachers, the Bishop's house and garden. All of the 67½-acre wooded hill is to be enclosed by a wall with gates dedicated to the twelve Apostles. Ultimately it will represent perhaps $40,000,000 worth of pious enterprise?what Bishop Freeman calls a "powerhouse of religious energy." Of the more than...
Smallest decrease: Evangelical Synod in North America...
...since 886 had there been a Patriarch named Photios. And not since 787 (second Nicaean Council, before East and West split) has there been held an Ecumenical Synod of the Orthodox Eastern Church. Next June at Mount Athos, Greece's monastic republic (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929), will be held a prosynod to lay the groundwork for an Ecumenical Synod (probably in 1934) whereat the theological problems of twelve centuries, including Anglican unity, will be deliberated...
...nations. Yet the large section represented by 45% could conscientiously serve as chaplains; 43% distinguished between offensive and defensive war, preferring the latter. In a denominational listing, the Protestant Episcopalians stood 49% against absolute condemnation of war and 70% of them could serve as chaplains. Members of the Evangelical Synod were at the opposite pole: 69% condemning all wars, 49% refusing to be chaplains
...State had argued that there is nothing in the constitution of the Lutheran Augustana Synod which would forbid a pastor from revealing information given to him at a confessional. Judge Guilford said he did not regard the Lutheran confession as binding upon the pastor, as is the Catholic confession. To this line of reasoning, the Rev. Leonard Kendall, a colleague of Pastor Swenson, replied...