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The Vanguard (Vol. 31, No. 2), Mar-Apr 1984, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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According to Paul Schultz, president of the National Indian Lutheran Board (NILB), 1983 was a year of continuing leadership and growing partnership.

In his report to the almost forty participants at the recent annual meeting in Tempe, AZ, Schultz noted that "It is exciting to participate in the process that is setting a vision for continuing Indian Ministry, and then translating that vision into action. "

The Vanguard (Vol. 31, No. 1), Feb 1984, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Irreparable damage was inflicted on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during a bitter and protracted debate spanning much of 1983. The past year has seen the loss of an independent civil rights 'watchdog' that has served the nation welt for over 25 years. It was a one-of-a-kind agency that will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was created by President Eisenhower in 1957 for the express purpose of investigating and monitoring in an objective manner the civil rights policies of the federal government. Under this responsibility it monitors the performance of federal …

The Vanguard (Vol. 31, No. 8), Dec 1984, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Nowhere in the crisis of American agriculture are the problems more imposing than in the decline of Black farm ownership and operation.

The decline of Black farming in the U.S. is illustrated by date from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These data indicate that in every decade from 1959 to 1978, the number of Black-operated farms has been cut in half.

The Vanguard (Vol. 31, No. 5), July 1984, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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No longer wishing to be marginalized by the national Lutheran churches, and deeply concerned about the ongoing formation of a new Lutheran church, 35 persons gathered in Chicago, May 10-12, and formed a coalition of "edge-of-the-church" ministries. Called the Working Group On Justice Agendas and the New Lutheran church, it represents the broadest based coalition of such Lutheran ministries that has ever been formed.

The Rev. Dr. Albert "Pete" Pero proclaimed the event to be '' A union which will make the new church take justice seriously.'' Pero, a member of the Transcultural Task Force, Association of Black Lutherans (LCA) …

The Vanguard (Vol. 31, No. 6), Sep-Oct 1984, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Under the theme of "A Church for Our Children," more than 200 persons participated in the 31st Annual Human Relations Institute at Carroll College, sponsored by Lutheran Human Relations Association of America.

The theme was derived from a document prepared by the Tri-Lutheran Trans-Cultural Task Force and was the focus of worship, reflection sessions and speakers for the weekend conference July 27-29.

Keynote speaker Wi Jo Kang, a professor of World Religions and Mission at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, IA, highlighted the theme with an analogy to the church as experienced at the . first Pentecost.

The Vanguard (Vol. 31, No. 4), June 1984, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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In the early 1980's the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service began a policy of incarcerating Haitians at Miami's Krome Detention Center. A visit to the facility in those days revealed the inhumane treatment being afforded to people who in desperation had fled the tyrannical regime of President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier in creaky, overloaded boats.

At Krome they sat-month after month-segregated from family and friends in a strange new land; prisoners penned in by barbed-wire fences. Krome was aptly characterized as an ugly scar on the face of American democracy.

The Vanguard (Vol. 31, No. 3), May 1984, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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An FBI and police informant leads a car caravan of 39 Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis into an anti-Klan demonstration in a Black neighborhood in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of the planners of the attack, an undercover Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (U.S. Treasury) agent is absent from the caravan. The caravan is followed closely by an unmarked Greensboro police car. Though the FBI and police are forewarned of the assault, all police squad cars have been pulled from the area.

Klansmen and Nazis yell racist epithets at the multiracial crowd of men, women and children, attack the …

The Vanguard (Vol. 31, No. 7), Nov 1984, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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The Simpson/Mazzoli immigration bill was on again and off again as the 98th Congress closed its final session in October.

Two issues each deadlocked the conference committee that was charged Sept. 13 with resolving differences between the two versions passed earlier in the year by the House and Senate.

The Vanguard (Vol. 30, No. 8), Dec 1983, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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A group of four volunteers from the United States is living . in Jalapa, Nicaragua, as part of a nonviolent program entitled, "Witness for Peace." Jalapa, near the northern border of Nicaragua with Honduras has been the site of attacks by the anti-Nicaraguan "contras" forces.

The Witness for Peace program has grown out of the experience of some North Americans who have visited Nicaragua since the Sandinista revolution in 1979. The group wants to speak out and act against the toll that the ongoing war is taking in human lives.

The Vanguard (Vol. 30, No. 3), May 1983, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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A group of Latin American Lutherans held a ''Lutheran Regional Consultation on Solidarity" in Costa Rica last January.

The participants, from Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela and four Central American countries issued a communique which calls for a negotiated settlement in El Salvador. It also denounces destabilizing efforts against Nicaragua and continuing oppression in Guatemala.

The Vanguard (Vol. 30, No. 1), Feb 1983, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Human problems rising out of changes in laws and shifts in the federal budget over the past two years have been the focus of a series of regional workshops sponsored throughout the U.S. by the Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los Angeles.

The first of these workshops was a Midwest Legal Services Training Conference attracting 190 delegates from six states, held at Madison, WI, under joint auspices of the Wisconsin Nutrition Project and Western Wisconsin Legal Services.

The Vanguard (Vol. 30, No. 6), Sep-Oct 1983, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Dr. Bernard Lafayette, an associate of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia, celebrated the effectiveness of nonviolence in addressing social injustices during a speech to the 1983 Lutheran Human Relations Institute.

Dr. Lafayette, reading the address originally scheduled to be presented by Coretta Scott King, reaffirmed the effectiveness of nonviolence in the 1980s.

Mrs. King was unable to appear at the Institute because of the illness of her mother. Dr. Lafayette was a colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., and a coordinator of the August 27, 20th Anniversary March on Washington, D.C.

The Vanguard (Vol. 30, No. 4), June 1983, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Dr. Angel Ibarra, Director of Medical Services of Lutheran Social Services of El Salvador, was still imprisoned by Salvadoran National Police as of May 25th.

Dr. Ibarra, along with Pastor Medardo Gomez, was arrested in San Salvador on April 27th. Pastor Gomez was released after three days. Gomez is President of the Lutheran Synod of El Salvador, embracing 24,000 members and affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) in the United States. He serves as pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in San Salvador.

The Vanguard (Vol. 30, No. 5), July 1983, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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"It's a time to experience· friendship and fellowship," said Ted Gleiter, LHRAA Board member, as he discussed the August 26th gathering in Washington, DC to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Lutheran Human Relations.

Gleiter, and Richard Fox, Jr., co-organizers of the event, are making plans to CELEBRATE THE STRUGGLE at First Trinity Lutheran Church in the Capital.

Gleiter said he hoped that all the Lutherans planning to attend the August 27th March on Washington for "Jobs, Peace and Freedom'' would also come the evening before to First Trinity to coordinate a visible Lutheran presence at the Saturday march.

The Vanguard (Vol. 30, No. 2), Mar-Apr 1983, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Citing a variety of activities with individual Indian groups on and off the reservation, and involvement with national Indian organizations, Paul Schultz, President of the National Indian Lutheran Board (NILB) summarized a sampling of involvements by staff, resource persons and board members by saying:

"While we still attempt to address areas of extreme human need through our modest grants program, it has become even more important to invest greater amounts of time and effort in networking with organizations within the church, such as the Office of Governmental Affairs, as well as a number of other state, regional and national organizations …

The Vanguard (Vol. 30, No. 7), Nov 1983, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Recognizing the relationship between domestic and international oppression of people of color, Cross Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, WI, declared itself a public sanctuary for Central American refugees.

The September service to inaugurate the sanctuary site also commemorated the 20th Anniversary of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, where four girls died during the height of the civil rights struggle.

The Vanguard (Vol. 29, No. 6), July 1982, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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The Rev. Jonathan C. Nelson, a University of Washington Luther an Campus pastor, who intends to get arrested for his planned protest of the arrival of a Trident nuclear submarine at a naval base near Seattle, plans to resign after he is imprisoned.

When the Trident submarine arrives in Puget Sound later this year, Nelson and other protestors (including Nelson's mother) plan to enter the restricted waters around the base in small boats forming a symbolic blockade to stop the Trident from docking.

The Vanguard (Vol. 29, No. 2), Mar 1982, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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"The National Indian Lutheran Board has finished another busy and very productive year of operation. During this last year our involvement has continued in terms of promoting positive national policy, work with different Lutheran constituencies, participating with other ethnic groups, continuation of the National Indian Lutheran Board (NILB) grant program, and working as a co-worker with other national Indian organizations.''

That's how Paul Schultz began his annual president's report to the NILB board. More than two dozen board members and consultants attended the three day meeting at Cook Christian Training School in Tempe, AZ.

The Vanguard (Vol. 29, No. 8), Nov 1982, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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The church's concern for the equal rights of women did not end on June 30th of this year.

On July 1st, in an act of renew al, the Religious Committee for the ERA (RCERA) adopted a new name and an updated agenda. Called the Religious Network for Equality for Women (RNEW), this revitalized effort represents Protectants, Catholics and Jews. RNEW has about forty member organizations.

The Vanguard (Vol. 29, No. 9), Dec 1982, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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What more is there to say about women in ministry? Plenty. And plenty was said from November 3-5 in Deerfield, Illinois at a conference entitled, ''Women in Ministry- A Conference for Lutheran Bishops and Staff." Thirty-nine bishops and their assistants met with fifteen lay and ordained women, following through on an idea conceived at the Conference of Ordained Women, held in 1980 to mark the tenth anniversary of the decision by three major Lutheran bodies to ordain women.

The Deerfield event was the first of three such meetings; one will be held in Philadelphia in December and one in San …

The Vanguard (Vol. 29, No. 7), Sep-Oct 1982, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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A memorial service of Thanksgiving and Celebration was held for Margaret Schulze on Sunday evening, August 8, at St. James Lutheran Church in Richmond, California. She had died at home in her sleep Thursday morning, August 5, 1982, at the age of 80; 4 months and 3 days after her husband Andrew, the founder of FLHRAA, had been laid to rest.

On July 18, Margaret had suffered a broken hip from a nocturnal fall. Following successful surgery, she experienced a stroke on the left side of her body, from which she never recovered.

The Vanguard (Vol. 29, No. 1), Feb 1982, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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How can we participate in the vision of a transcultural church? How do individuals and families overcome the survivalism mentality that is spreading across the land? Can we be attuned to the realities of a North/South global church?

The prophet Joel tells us that God's Spirit will lead us: Then we will dream dreams and see visions. Then we will proclaim God's message.

The Vanguard (Vol. 29, No. 5), June 1982, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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"Within the last ten days, there have been five suicide attempts in the Krome detention center," said Leticia Godoy, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) staff person in Miami concerning Haitian refugees imprisoned by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). "That just gives you some idea of how bad the situation is."

At last report, more than 2,000 Haitians have been languishing in detention as advocacy continues for their release - and as controversy rages on over their legal status here.

The Vanguard (Vol. 29, No. 4), May 1982, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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In an interview published in The Atlantic, budget director David Stockman contrasted the powerful forces possessing "weak claims " to federal funds with the ' 'weak clients" having powerful claims to public support. The current state of the economy has intensified the competition between these two groups. Those who lack the power to press their strong claims for just treatment - the elderly poor, the handicapped, the disabled , children and their low income mothers - are being asked again this year to bear more than their share in the drive to cut back federal spending.

The Vanguard (Vol. 28, No. 9), Nov 1981, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Concordia Lutheran College of Austin, Texas, has begun a program to equip laypersons for serving in their respective congregations or areas in various forms of ministry

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, in its 1977 Dallas convention instructed the college to develop a program that could aid the Hispanic Lutheran congregations in the United States in carrying out their Christian mission by better utilizing the ministry of laypersons interested in serving their Lord, but not able to leave their homes for various reasons, in order to seek preparation for such ministry. The goal of the program is to prepare people without any …

The Vanguard (Vol. 28, No. 6), July 1981, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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On Friday, Oct. 3, 1980, the South Dakota Council of LHRAA died ... and was reborn as a part of the new South Dakota Peace and Justice Center. State LHRAA Coordinators, Bea Friesth and · Ruth Jones, joined with other members to create a Biblically-based ecumenical instrument to work with and for the churches of · South Dakota. (See November 1980 VANGUARD)

Primarily a membership organization, the Center depends largely upon individual support. For 1981, the three priorities determined by a membership poll are: the nuclear issue (arms race, uranium mining, nuclear power); Native American concerns;. and poverty and hunger. …

The Vanguard (Vol. 28, No. 5), June 1981, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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What is the meaning of work? That's the question explored by the participants in the New Wine Exchange conference, "The Working World - What is Good Work?" May 1-3, in Chicago.

Kim Zalent, the coordinator of NWE, planned the conference with the help of several local groups.

The conference's approximately 40 participants heard a presentation by the Rev. Stanley Hallett of Garret Theological Seminary (Evanston, Illinois). Hallett said that the basic assumptions about work need to be reexamined: unlimited population growth, unlimited resources, and access to unlimited land are no longer accurate assumptions. He insists that work can no longer …

The Vanguard (Vol. 28, No. 4), May 1981, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Lutheran individuals and organizations have joined the thousands of other. civic and religious leaders in expressing dismay at the deaths of 26 black young people in Atlanta.

In early April, the standing committee of the Lutheran Council's Division for Mission and Ministry issued a statement urging Lutheran congregations to "increase their efforts for an end of racial violence in their communities, states, and the nation."

The Vanguard (Vol. 28, No. 2), Mar 1981, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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Repeating an action of two years ago, the Missouri Synod board of directors, meeting the last weekend in February, resolved to notify the Lutheran Council that the synod will discontinue its support of the Council's Indian desk and withdraw its participation from the National Indian Lutheran Board (NILB) as of March 1982.

In taking this action, the board "approved in principle" the recommendations of the synod's Board of Missions-recommendations based on a report of the synod's American Indian Advisory Council (

The Vanguard (Vol. 28, No. 1), Feb 1981, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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"There is some relief that Secretary of Interior James Watt promised to honor the commitment made by Ronald Reagan to respect self-determination and tribal sovereignity. It is a matter of record from his confirmation hearings that as Secretary of Interior, he will uphold the trust responsibility the federal government has with American Indians. This is encouraging."

That's the assessment of Eugene Crawford, director of the National Indian Lutheran Board (NILB) as he looks forward to the operations of the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Department of Interior.