Word: synods
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Delegates to the triennial synod of the Church of England in Canada, meeting in London, Ont. last week, suggested that the Ten Commandments, as recited in the Church of England's Communion service, could stand some improvement. They recommended that the Biblical text generally called the "eleventh commandment" be added. It reads: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." *Explained the Rev. R. F. Palm er, one of the motion's sponsors: "We feel this change is necessary to give the commandments...
...Lutherans of the Missouri Synod launched the first of a 26-week, half-hour television series titled This Is The Life. The program revolves around the Fishers, an Andy Hardy type of family, whose ups & downs will be used to make unobtrusive Christian and ethical points rather than purely Lutheran and sectarian ones. Filmed in Hollywood at a cost of $500,000, the series is carried as a public service feature by 35 stations. ¶ Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who made his TV debut last season (TIME, Feb. 25), will resume his Life Is Worth Living program in November over...
...Charleston, W.Va., the Southern Presbyterians (membership: 720,000) dissolved their church's only Negro synod, Snedecor Memorial Synod. Henceforth, Negro Presbyterian churches in Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama will send their delegates to the white synods in those states...
Last week, after a lapse of two centuries, the ritual of individual confession was again an official practice among German Lutherans. In Flensburg a fortnight ago, the General Synod of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church* restored the same private confession which Martin Luther, in his day, had emphasized as an important means to salvation. It had been virtually abandoned since the 18th century, when most Lutheran churches, influenced by rationalist philosophy, discarded private confession as unnecessary...
...revived Lutheran confession, unlike the Roman Catholic sacrament, is voluntary and not regarded as essential to salvation. Any Christian, the synod declared, whether ordained or not, may hear another's confession and grant absolution; if the penitent believes and is genuinely sorry for his sins, he is truly forgiven...