Sentences with phrase «lutheran pastors»

Five have been Lutheran pastors and 6 have not.

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Few Lutheran pastors today preach more than twenty minutes, a considerable reduction from the twenty - five to thirty - five minutes that was common in my childhood.

Reform in that town led to more not less supervision of life by the church in the form of the new Lutheran pastors.

Lutheran pastors who teach obedience (as Luther did!)

«Those are Lutheran pastors up there,» she said more than once, seeking my confirmation.

Three Swedish Lutheran pastors were busily at work when the Dutch captured these settlements in 1656.

In 2009, my colleague Theodor Dieter and I started teaching a two - week course every November on Luther's theology, for Lutheran pastors from all over the world, in no less venerable a location than Wittenberg itself.

Since Luther first popularized this view of vocation, Lutheran pastors have consistently exhorted their flocks to perform their vocations as subjects, parishioners, and family members.

Even the rare incidents involving young boys get passed over because headlines about Lutheran pastors aren't nearly as invitingly lurid as «pedophile priests.»

For three months during the early years of World War II, from November 1940 through February 1941, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945) lived at Ettal, in a historic Benedictine monastery that is still a tourist attraction today.

I had done that while my husband and I attended premarital counseling with the Lutheran pastor who had married us.

Among seriously Christian environmentalists with a biocentric bent, Lutheran pastor Paul Santmire stands out as one of the ablest and most careful students of the history of theology.

Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L. Berger Prometheus, 264 pages, $ 26 From Austria to America, from aspiring Lutheran pastor to eminent sociologist, from liberal to neoconservative, Peter Berger has had a remarkable and peculiar....

Having emigrated from Vienna to New York just after World War II at age eighteen, and having completed college planning to become a Lutheran pastor, Berger decided to spend 1949 taking sociology courses at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

ALL ABOUT SAVING SOULS Inner - city ministry, as it was called, was all the rage when I was a young Lutheran pastor.

My husband will preside at the ceremony next month — he has been a LUTHERAN pastor for over 30 years!!!

«I am a Lutheran pastor (ELCA) and I also have a Master's Degree in Molecular Biology which was my trade before I went to seminary.

(This Lutheran Pastor believes that both the Assumption of Mary and the Immaculate Conception can be defended biblically, but they can not be made dogmatic beliefs necessary for salvation.)

His father was a German Lutheran pastor who immigrated to this country and converted to the Baptist faith and the democratic polity as a young man.

No Lutheran pastor in my childhood ever made — whether in or out of the pulpit — a public political comment (though it was generally assumed that most of them, if they voted at all, voted Republican), and while we occasionally talked politics at home (my father was a Robert Taft isolationist Republican), the true family passion was religion.

The Lutheran pastor was a key figure in the fight against Hitler.

The speakers were a rabbi, a Catholic priest, and myself (then a Lutheran pastor).

My role as a non-Indian, a Lutheran pastor and a Western - trained psychotherapist was first challenged years ago while I was working and living with a number of Chippewas, members of my first rural parish in northern Michigan.

CNN: Lutheran pastor apologizes for praying in Newtown vigil A Lutheran pastor has apologized after being chastised by his denomination's leader for offering a prayer at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

I was alerted to this situation when a Lutheran pastor told me: «Spirituality is what all my people are looking for today — and we don't even have the word in our tradition.»

It is by Martin Niemöller, prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, best known as the author of the poem First They Came...

Mark Ellingsen, former professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, is a Lutheran pastor, and author of The Ecumenical Movement (Augsburg).

As a recent Atlantic essay points out, Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz - Weber's emphasis on sin and grace in Christ sounds downright conservative.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor and theologian who was born in 1906 and executed at the direct orders of Adolf Hitler on April 9, 1945, at the Flossenberg prison in Bavaria.

The «Karl Hoffman» of the story is based on the real - world experience of the late Leopold Bernhard, a Lutheran pastor who fled Germany and ministered for years in this country.

The theologically astute Lutheran pastor, Leonard Klein, protests Elizabeth A. Johnson's «A Theological Case for God — She,» published in Commonweal.

Never once have they guessed «Lutheran Pastor»!

Tall, muscular and heavily tattooed, she says that she is more likely to be mistaken for a burlesque dancer than a Lutheran pastor.

Russell E. Saltzman is a former Lutheran pastor transitioning to the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1742, Henry Melchior Mühlenberg, a Lutheran pastor, arrived in Pennsylvania.

Early in my parish life as a Lutheran pastor I was asked to visit a woman only marginally connected to the parish.

Among Western European political leaders, Israel's best friend is the Lutheran pastor's child Angela Merkel.

My husband was a Lutheran pastor David, a hopscotching ministry that started 30 years ago, evolved from industrial pastoring into a consulting career, returned to the ministry when my 24 - year - old daughter was killed, taking on two churches and undergoing some excruciating experiences.

After the Dutch triumph, only one Lutheran pastor was allowed to remain.

A Lutheran pastor writes me that he has been wrestling again with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that most worthy theologian who was martyred during the last days of the Nazi horror.

I have served as a Lutheran pastor in many funerals in the past fifteen years.

Founded in 1994 by Chuck Colson, the great evangelist and preacher, and Richard John Neuhaus, the Lutheran pastor who later became a Catholic priest, ECT continues today to bear good fruit in its witness to Jesus Christ and the gospel.

Washington (CNN)-- A Lutheran pastor has apologized after being chastised by his denomination's leader for offering a prayer at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Russell E. Saltzman is a Lutheran pastor, an online homilist for the Christian Leadership Center at the University of Mary, and author of The Pastor's Page and Other Small Essays.

And the Lutheran pastor down the street may do the opposite with complete impunity because our communion is organized not around orthodoxy but around a series of pragmatic compromises designed to hold a loose coalition together.

Russell E. Saltzman, a former Lutheran pastor transitioning to the Roman Catholic Church, is book review editor at Aleteia.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran pastor who was martyred for resisting Hitler, gave what may be the clearest expression of the principle: «If government persistently and arbitrarily violates its assigned task, then the divine mandate lapses.»

RESOURCES Orson Scott Card, Empire Carl Braaten, Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Pastor - Theologian Become a fan of First Things on Facebook, subscribe to First Things via RSS, and follow First Things on Twitter.

In an interview recently published in the National Review, Robert P. George remarked that, as a Catholic, Richard retained something of the character of the Lutheran pastor he once had been, but I do not think that that was so.