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Laestadius was a Lutheran pastor who served in northern Sweden from 1825 to 1861. The movement reached North America with Finnish immigrants in the 1860s. Congregations were first formally organized in Cokato, Minnesota, in 1872 and Calumet, Michigan, in 1873. The Laestadian movement in North America has suffered a number of schisms since 1890.
United Methodist Church (aft. 1968) Ordained. 1961. Congregations served. Travis Park Church, San Antonio. University United Methodist Church. Franklin Gene Leggett (1935–1987) was an American Methodist minister who was the first gay minister to be defrocked by the United Methodist Church for being homosexual, in 1971.
The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC) is the sixth largest Lutheran church body in the United States. The AFLC includes congregations from the former Lutheran Free Church in 27 different U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. The AFLC is not an incorporated synod, but a free association. Each local congregation is a separate ...
1971–2004. Religion. Christianity (Methodist) Church. United Methodist Church. Congregations served. Good Samaritan United Methodist Church, Edina. Rick Huskey is an American minister. He was a co-founder of the United Methodist Gay Clergy Caucus, alongside Gene Leggett, which later became known as Affirmation.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant [8] denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelicalism. The present denomination was founded in 1968 in Dallas, Texas, by union of the Methodist ...
It’s all Walt Disney—we all think alike in the ultimate pattern. I’m not Walt Disney anymore.” In the end, the pictures still told the story in the annual report. Walt okayed the images and caption copy identify-ing the Disney project only. No names were used; no indi-viduals were identified or credited in the photos. We all got the ...
Protestant America and the pagan world: the first half century of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1810–1860 (Harvard University Press, 1969) Putney, Clifford (writer of introduction and editor with Burlin, Paul), The Role of the American Board in the World: Bicentennial Reflections on the Organization's Missionary ...
The history of Christianity and homosexuality has been much debated. [2] The Hebrew Bible and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality; [3] [4] throughout the majority of Christian history, most Christian theologians and denominations have considered homosexual behavior ...