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...committee report proposed that the 13 theological seminaries of the United Lutheran Church be merged, for economy, into five strategic centres across the country. This proposal was put over until this week, as also was one made by the ministerium of Pennsylvania (oldest, largest synod in the church) objecting to the birth control pronouncements of the Federal Council of Churches and urging that the Lutherans withdraw from their consultative membership...
...Manhattan last week, the United Lutheran Synod of New York, also aroused on birth control, memorialized the national church to request the Federal Council "before making public pronouncements ... to ascertain first, when possible, the position of all churches involved and to list any such as may not be in agreement...
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...