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...member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and a Lutheran seminarian, I might say that the Rev. Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffmann does not speak for "us Lutherans." Many seminarians and, I'm sure, many pastors in parish work feel that our parochial schools should receive federal aid. Since we support public education with our tax money, it is only fair that the federal government aid our church schools...
Protestants quickly disagreed with the protest. "Federal assistance should be restricted to public schools," said Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffman of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which operates the biggest U.S. Protestant school system (158,000 students). "Let Cardinal Spellman speak for himself. He does not speak for us Lutherans." John F. Kennedy snapped: "No comment...
...significant that two of the six contemporary churches pictured are Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod churches. We have been aptly described as the most conservative in doctrine and the most progressive in architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe notwithstanding, it is not technology that is building these houses of worship, but it is devoted followers of Christ putting technology to work for the kingdom...
...tithe-literally, "tenth"-is simply a tax of a tenth of one's income. The ancient Israelites paid it, and Christians carried on the custom; the Synod of Macon in 585 made it compulsory under threat of excommunication. After the Reformation, the Protestants continued tithing until the custom fell into disuse during the last century, except with the Mormons, the Seventh-day Adventists, and several other groups, which have flourished on it. Since World War II, however, tithing has staged something of a comeback among Protestants, though not among Catholics...
...Approved a merger with three other Lutheran denominations-the 605,000-member Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, organized in 1860 by U.S. citizens of Swedish birth or ancestry; the 36,000-member Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod), founded in 1890; the 24,000-member American Evangelical Lutheran Church organized by Danish missionaries in 1872. The move to merge, said United Lutheran President Franklin Clark Fry, was a "historic and momentous decision...