Church Unions

Ecumenicism.

A series of church unions took place in the 1960s. While most of these mergers were between like-minded groups, they stimulated a belief in ecumenicism. The decade began with the creation of the American Lutheran Church by the union of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the American Lutheran Church, and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church. In 1962 the United Lutheran Church in America, the Agustana Evangelical Church, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church united to form the Lutheran Church in America.

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"The faith that renews itself at Easter is the ground of Christian morals; and Christian morals this year are deeply involved in racial issues.…[An] issue from the past is raised by that Broadway play The Deputy: Was Pope Pius XII false to his trust as Christ's vicar on...

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