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...believes that Lutherans are part of Protestantism as a whole and should not hold aloof from their brethren in the larger faith. The other was the American Lutheran Church (515,935 members), not quite so liberal as the United Lutherans (but not so conservative, for example, as the Missouri Synod, 1,219,935 members, which feels that Lutherans are a closed corporation, should first unite themselves, then mingle with other sects only for the purpose of converting them...
Church Militant. Many & many a churchman favored immediate intervention on the Allied side. ∧ Before 600 delegates from his 266 parishes New York's Episcopal Bishop Manning declared at the Synod House of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine last week: "We are facing the most stupendous crisis in the last 2,000 years. ... In such a situation, can any Christian or any American be neutral?" - In Albany, N. Y., Bishop George Ashton Oldham (Episcopal) went Bishop Manning one better. The word "neutrality," said he, is "an abhorrent thing," and "isolation" is "a dangerous anachronism...
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...
...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...