Word: synods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago the United Lutheran Synod of New York considered instituting courses in sex education, "by Christian physicians of both sexes," in its Sunday schools. The Synod shelved the embarrassing question for a twelvemonth. Last week, in its annual convention in Albany, it heard from a Lutheran layman, Dr. G. A. Schnepel, that "sex is as clean as the stars if it is handled right." From a Lutheran pastor, Rev. Paul Andrew Kirsch, it heard that sex education has been "overemphasized and overpublicized." The Synod decided to keep sex out of Sunday School, leave sex education to Lutheran parents...
...postponing "indefinitely" the trial of Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, doughty Confessional Synod leader, and 78 other imprisoned anti-Nazi pastors, the German Government last week showed signs of backing down in its campaign against its Christian foes. The Reich, however, continued to devise ingenious ways of preserving its Aryan population from Jewish contamination...
...four-year-old struggle between Dictator Hitler and the Confessional Synod, Germany's anti-Nazi Protestant Church, has been a clash between ruthlessness and spunky defiance. Last week, however, the Third Reich tried a Confessional leader in a way that would have brought credit to any Government...
...before an emergency court in Berlin was Rev. Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius. eminent theologian and general superintendent of the Confessional Synod. He was charged by Nazi Church-Minister Hans Kerrl with publishing a letter last winter falsely accusing Minister Kerrl of mocking, in a public speech, that ABC of Christian doctrine-that Jesus is the Son of God. Three competent attorneys appeared for Dr. Dibelius; the public was admitted except when Minister Kerrl was present; the press was admitted throughout the trial...
...after the Patriarch's funeral tension had become so great that the Premier bolted from the capital to Brod where Prince Paul, the chief Regent, was vacationing. In an effort to cause the Premier the maximum embarrassment, the Orthodox Holy Synod this week ordered him back to Belgrade to stand trial with the rest of the "excommunicated" before a Church Court...