Word: synods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany, Scandinavia and the U.S., where it is the third largest Protestant segment (after the Baptists and the Methodists). Three branches of the faith account for most of the nation's 10 million Lutherans: the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...
Nothing for Granted. Many churches in recent years have indeed launched their own surveys of the problem. The United Church of Christ will hear the findings of a two-year study at its General Synod in June, and the Episcopal Church last year launched a major investigation of its seminary education. Feilding notes that a few seminaries already "are taking bold and effective steps" to reform. For example, Chicago Theological Seminary, which is affiliated with the United Church, has thrown out its first-year classes in favor of intensive courses "to introduce the student to the concrete study...
...deeper meaning of the Washington meeting was the democratization of the hierarchy. In the past, the annual meetings of the hierarchy were largely dominated by the senior U.S. prelates and automatically chaired by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. In setting up a formal hierarchical synod under the title of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the prelates also made provisions for electing its officers. Chosen on the third ballot as first president of the conference was the Most Rev. John Francis Dearden, 59, the progressive Archbishop of Detroit...
...Protestants frequently referred to her as a "Roman Catholic" with a strong emphasis on the Roman. For the benefit of Bettie Phillips, Mary explained why the chief priest of a parish is called the pastor; Bettie in turn explained to the Catholics how Presbyterians use the terms vestry and synod and why their principal statement of faith is called the Westminster Confession...
Slices of Life. Not all religious television, of course, displays a richness of imagination. Some of the programs produced by the churches' own television divisions and syndicated to stations individually are almost as cliche-ridden as a Hollywood comedy series. The Missouri Synod's This Is the Life, which is shown on 375 stations, frequently features pious family dramas with all too obvious moral points. One recent slice of Life told of a critically ill boy who asked to see his father. The plot focused on the search for the man, a stevedore who had walked...