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The article focuses on the controversies brought by different interpretations of the Bible in the U.S. It mentions how conflict has taken place between conservatives and moderates in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. It states that there are resentments between those who advocate freer scriptural interpretation and traditionalists that helped to cause schism among Southern Presbyterians.

The article focuses on the aspect of including women in ministry in Sweden, which was disapproved by the Lutheran church and resulted to the withdrawal of several women. It says that on the Church Meeting of the state Lutheran church of Sweden in October 1957, the proposal to allow the ordination of women was rejected after losing several votes based on a Biblical context. Moreover, it notes that 75 women, led by Esther Lutteman, had declared themselves nonmembers of the church due to the issue.

The article focuses on the feud in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. It mentions that the leader of the Missouri Synod's breakaway liberal faction, Reverend John Tietjen, delivered a testimony about how the institution is corrupt, the leadership immoral, and how rank-and-file members have chosen to ignore and overlook evil in an auditorium at the O'Hare Inn near Chicago, Illinois. The 1,600 listeners whom he addressed were members of Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (ELIM). It also states that Tietjen was suspended by the Concordia board in January 1974 as the seminary's president on charges that included the fostering of heresy.

The article discusses the Bavarian Lutheran Church which is the only Protestant church left in West Germany that does not permit the ordination of women. It mentions some innovations that occur in Bavaria like the bishop who can give special permission to a woman to celebrate the Eucharist. However, there are three Bavarian Lutheran pastors who were bothered with the incursion and have fled their churches and begun studies to become Roman Catholic priests. It mentions the priests who forsake the Lutheran fold including Reverends Wilhelm Schwenold, Karl-Heinz Tillman and Gerhard Betzner. It notes that conservatives in the U.S. have fused control of the administration and seminars of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod members at the cost of a serious schism.

The article reports that the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church has approved the use of birth control by its members during its 95th annual convention held in Los Angeles, California.

The article discusses the highlights of the second assembly of the Lutheran World Federation attended by 20,000 delegates in Hannover, West Germany. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway who led and anti-Nazi resistance movement in World War II, delivered a loudly applauded speech on rejection of tyrannical governments. The assembly elected Hannover's Bishop Hans Lilje, one of the most anti-Communist churchmen in Europe, as new president. Other notable attendees included Doctor Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America.

The article features Pastor Tibert V. Anderson of Garden City South and cites the help that his neighbors offered during a tragic time in his life and family. In 1950, the Saint Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church was up with a lot of help from Anderson and the congregation was formed. Anderson and his daughter were brought to the hospital due to polio. His wife's mother died of heart attack because of such news and Anderson himself died soon after. His neighbors raised funds and provided financial aid to the Anderson family.

This article reports on the installation of the Reverend John Urich as the permanent pastor of Grace & St. Paul's Church of the Lutheran Church in New York City in 1951. Urich was made as a temporary pastor of the church after he asked the Lutheran Synod to let him go and become a Presbyterian. The synod asked him to try the church for six months. In October 1951, the synod voted to install Urich as the permanent pastor.

The article discusses an incident wherein the pastor of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church challenged three Freemasons who were members of the congregation to denounce their lodge affiliation or leave the church. Pastor Walter Bauer cited his refusal to give the Masons communion or officiate in their burial contending that Masonic teachings were opposed to the Bible. During a vote by 109 members of the Trinity Lutheran Church, majority agreed to reinstate the three Masons under a one-year probationary period.

The article reports on the presence of politics in American churches of Protestantism. It focuses on the different views of churches on three areas of disagreement which include the strict and liberal interpretation of the Bible, evangelism and social action, and a distrust of ecumenism and an eagerness for church merger. It mentions about the bitter clash between conservative and moderate members of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod (LCMS) over Bible's inerrancy, and presbyteries.

The article discusses the unification of the Lutheran Church/Missouri Synod with the American Lutheran Church in the U.S. It states that members of each church are permitted to preach, conduct fellowship and take communion in each other's church. It mentions that the groups agree on the superiority of the Bible.

An obituary for Reverend Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), is presented.

Comments on the agreement made between Lutherans and Catholics as of July 6, 1998. Debate over justification by faith; Announcement of a Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification; Hopes of a reunion between Lutherans and Catholics; Split instigated by Martin Luther's objections to Catholic Church practices; View of the Vatican.

The article focuses on the efforts of Pope John Paul to engage in diplomacy with Lutherans in Italy. It highlights the visit of the Pope in one of the country's Lutheran Church to preach and join in a Protestant worship. It also mentions that the local pastor of the Lutheran church Christoph Meyer has opened the worship with an invocation written by Martin Luther.

The article discusses a study regarding the reasons of Americans who prefer to be unchurched, by Reverend J. Russel Hale, professor of church and society at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It states that Hale has visited the most irreligious states ranked by Glenmary Home Missioners such as in West Virginia and Sarasota, Florida and interviewed 65 church shunners. It says that the study aims to examine the motives and establish descriptive categories of the unchurched. Results identified the smallest group called by Hale as The True Unbelievers which comprise the agnostics, humanists, and atheists who are latent unbelievers that express longing for faith, while the largest group is the Publicans who were named after the story of Jesus in Luke 18.

The article looks at the collections of religious denominations by professor Arthur C. Piepkorn. It mentions that the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod asked him to remake its standard reference work. It further states that he surveyed 50 categories of denominations and another described 231 groups in the U.S. It emphasizes that he classified a total of 735 North American religious bodies. Moreover, it mentions that Piepkorn's friend John Tietjen, president of Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri, edited the project for publication when he died.

The article focuses on the issue over the infallibility of the Bible. According to the book "The Battle for the Bible," by Harold Lindsell, history and science aside from morals and doctrines in the Bible are purely error-proof, and the U.S. Evangelicalism has been seriously influenced by laxer ideas. Linsell mentions the case of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod wherein neoliberals almost separate an Evangelical group from its beliefs. It notes that Linsell criticizes the book "Man as Male and Female," by Paul K. Jewett for the issue concerning the untruthful teaching for the creation of man and woman. Meanwhile, seminary president David Hubbard describes Lindsell as a man with a theology theory which could affect the entire Bible.

The article focuses on the demonstrations carried out by 200 protesters in front of the St. Louis headquarters of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in Missouri. It notes that Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus, conservative head of the denomination, who fired four district presidents in April 1976, is the target of the demonstrations. It mentions that the leaders were violating their norms by ordaining graduates of Seminex, the breakaway school from the synod's Concordia Seminary that was founded during the Lutherans' long-running doctrinal dispute over biblical interpretation.

The article offers information related to church and religion. It states that Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod conservative president Jacob A. O. Preus was authorized by the church's convention to remove dissident district presidents within 60 days before the reelection. It states that the first to reach the deadline was Herman Neunaber of the Southern Illinois District whom Prues chose for counseling and brotherly admonition. Meanwhile, the research conducted by Aetna Life & Casualty chairman John H. Filer's Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs shows that local churches run 12.5 billion dollars a year wherein one-fifth of the amount goes to charitable causes such as hospitals, schools, and social work.

The article focuses on the controversial nature of the religious faith of Reverend Richard John Neuhaus in the U.S. The continuous accountability of the nation to judgement by God has made Neuhaus think that believing in the covenant of God with the U.S. will lead to humility instead of arrogance. The Vietnam War and indifference to the poor have been criticized by Neuhaus. Religious and secular intellectuals are given less regard by Neuhaus as he considers them to be obsequiously accommodating to cultural moods instead of asserting religious truth claims.

The article focuses on the discussion of 51 theses regarding the role of Lutheran church in the world by U.S. protestant Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, 20 group leaders, three theological consultants, and 20 recorders during the Third Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It presents excerpts of the five general heading passages from the thesis. It adds that an election was made after discussion and Dr. Fry was elected president of the United Lutheran Church in America.

Information concerning the third assembly organized by the Lutheran World Federation at the Minneapolis Auditorium is presented. It mentions that the assembly's theme was Christ Frees and Unites which was expressed in three languages at the stage of the auditorium. The topics include the exhibitions for the works of the youth, Lutheran church activities, and a festival for children. The assembly featured various clergy like Bishop Lajos Ordass and Bishop Otto Dibelius.