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...nations. Yet the large section represented by 45% could conscientiously serve as chaplains; 43% distinguished between offensive and defensive war, preferring the latter. In a denominational listing, the Protestant Episcopalians stood 49% against absolute condemnation of war and 70% of them could serve as chaplains. Members of the Evangelical Synod were at the opposite pole: 69% condemning all wars, 49% refusing to be chaplains
...suit of one Gladys Sundseth of Minneapolis for a divorce from her husband Arnold has assumed large significance in the annals of the Lutheran Church. Called as a witness at the hearings last fortnight was Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson, Augustana Synod, who was questioned as follows...
...State had argued that there is nothing in the constitution of the Lutheran Augustana Synod which would forbid a pastor from revealing information given to him at a confessional. Judge Guilford said he did not regard the Lutheran confession as binding upon the pastor, as is the Catholic confession. To this line of reasoning, the Rev. Leonard Kendall, a colleague of Pastor Swenson, replied...
Archbishop Soderblom's second most important job is that of pro-Chancellor of the University of Upsala,* oldest of Sweden's universities, alma mater of Sweden's greatest, scene of the synod which marked the victory of Protestantism in Sweden...
...remaining impediment to the union, more ethical than actual, is the merger negotiations which the Reformed Church in the U. S. has been conducting with the Evangelical Synod of North America. Those negotiations might be dropped, as similar Reformed dealings with the United Brethren in Christ have been dropped, or, what seemed more likely last week, the United Brethren and the Evangelicals might be assimilated into the Presbyterian-Reformed association...