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The Vanguard (Vol. 16, No. 4), May 1969, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

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James Forman, director of the National Black Economic Development Conference, interrupted the service at Riverside Church, New York, on Sunday, May 3, when he stood in the chancel and read a list of demands made by his organization against the church. Riverside Church, located at Riverside Drive and 120th Street, just west of Harlem, has been singled out, Forman said, "because it is in the heart of the Harlem community, as are a few other racist institutions."

The Vanguard (Vol. 16, No. 3), Apr 1969, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

"Nothing could be more misleading to our children than our present affluent society. They will inherit a totally different world, a world in which the standards, politics, and economics of the 1960's are dead." So says Dr. Paul Ehrlich in a recently published paperback. THE POPULATION BOMB. He is a specialist in population biology and labeled by some as an obnoxious alarmist.

The Vanguard (Vol. 16, No. 8), Nov 1969, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

"I feel very uneasy about the reading of the names of all the U.S. fatalities in Vietnam," observed Hazaiah Williams, black clergyman from Oakland. Rev. Williams was addressing a "moratorium" assembly in Valparaiso University's Chapel. He made the remark as the subdued voices of students continued the 24 hour-long recitations of names of the war dead.

The Vanguard (Vol. 16, No. 7), Sep-Oct 1969, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Several months ago, the sanitation workers in Oklahoma City requested improved working conditions and more pay. Although some of their demands were met the specific requests for $100 a month pay raise and 5-man crews were not met, and the workers set a strike date of August 19.

The Vanguard (Vol. 16, No. 1), Jan-Feb 1969, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod is endeavoring to take its verbal commitment to the concern of housing needs seriously. February 16 marks the day of a church-wide effort to gather a million dollar offering in a program called "Keys for Christ."

It all started in New York in 1967 when delegates of the church assembled in convention wanted to give substance to resolutions of earlier conventions that spoke more generally in this matter.

The Vanguard (Vol. 16, No. 2), Mar 1969, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

LHRAA's Board of Directors has scheduled its 1969 Institute on Human Relations for Chicago for the week-end of June 27 to 29.

The decision calls for moving the site of the Institute from Valparaiso University to the Lutheran School of Theology. The meetings will be on Chicago's South Side in a setting where the issues of racial and urban crisis are close at hand.

The entire format - and goals - of this year's Institute will differ greatly from previous years.

The Vanguard (Vol. 16, No. 9), Dec 1969, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Fred Hampton, Illinois chairman of the Black Panther Party, is dead. So is Panther Mark Clark.

State's Attorney Edwin Hanrahan in a TV interview commended the officers who "bravely and with restraint" participated in the pre-dawn raid on Thursday December 4, when the shoot-out occurred.

Many in Chicago's black community and many whites are convinced that Hanrahan's men murdered Hampton as he slept.

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 2), Mar 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

How interested in the Presidential Commission's Report on Civil Disorders are the Lutherans?

If you base your answer on the response to a provocative conference arranged by Rev. Arnold Hilpert of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Illinois, you would have to say;

"Not much!"

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 7), Sep 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

"Don't keep giving us things!" was the passionate, slow, soft-spoken plea of Ralph Red Fox, a Cheyenne from Lame Deer, Montana. Observing that the life of the reservation Indian is managed and controlled to the point where he feels stifled and suffocated, Red Fox claimed that the man on the reservation has had his manhood seized from him.

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 5), Jun-Jul 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The Lutheran Human Relations Association notes with regret the sudden death of Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, President of the Lutheran Church in America, in June, 1968.

He was one of the great architects of the Protestant world. He appeared on the world scene as President of the United Lutheran Church in America in 1944, at the beginning of the post-war era. From 1944 until 1968 his organizing genius, his skill as a parliamentarian, and his creativeness were applied towards meeting the organizational demands of that era in such national and international bodies as the National Council of Churches, the World …

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 9), Dec 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

LHRAA's Denver Chapter is at work making preparations to help Synodical delegates understand the racial and urban crises confronting the church. As headquarters for its activities the group has reserved the Junior Ball Room of the Hilton Hotel where many of the delegates will be housed during the convention of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, July 11-19, 1969.

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 8), Oct-Nov 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Brothers in our Lord Christ:

The Lutheran Human Relations Association of America is a voluntary association of Lutherans organized to help the church fill the role of leadership in the area of human relations assigned to her by our Lord when He said, "By this shall men know that you are My disciples - that you love one another."

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 4), May 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Fifty-two of the eighty black clergymen of the three major Lutheran church bodies met in Chicago, May 7 to 10, to discuss problems common to their ministry and evolve a strategy for helping the church through the years ahead.

After meeting in closed assembly for a day and a half, the pastors opened sessions to white church leaders to share concerns with them. On hand also for the consultation were the presidents of the ALC, Mo. Synod, and LCA, Doctors Schiotz, Harms and Fry.

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 3), Apr 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

All that God has prepared for and wills to give to man may be summarized in these two words: heaven and earth.

In this connection, "heaven" is the divine, unmerited favor of God which includes the eradication of just judgment upon sin, man's restoration to sonship in and acceptance by God, and the hope of a resurrection from death to eternal life through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 1), Jan-Feb 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

A Missouri Synod Lutheran pastor has been appointed to coordinate the planning of the new Portland, Ore. Model Cities program. Rev. Paul J. Schulze, director of the Church-Community Action Program for the Portland Council of Churches and a 1951 graduate of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, has been granted $141,000 from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development for the first year of planning in the Model Cities program.

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 6), Aug 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The Board of Directors of the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America has designated Mr. and Mrs. Chris McNair of Birmingham, Alabama, to receive the Mind of Christ Award.

The award is presented annually in connection with the Saturday evening dinner of the Valparaiso University Institute on Human Relations.

The Reverend Joseph Ellwanger of Milwaukee who formerly served at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Birmingham, Alabama where Mr. McNair is a member, was invited to make the presentation.

The Vanguard (Vol. 14, No. 8), Dec 1967, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

From its earliest days LHRAA has wanted to "help the church fill the role of leadership in the field of human relations assigned to her by her Lord." Specific care was taken not to isolate that ministry to problems in Negro-white relations. Accordingly we have, through the years, addressed ourselves to areas involving the Indian American, Appalachian whites, Puerto Ricans, migrant workers, victims of poverty, and others.

The Vanguard (Vol. 14, No. 5), Jul-Aug 1967, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Some forty-five professional church workers visited Holy Family Lutheran Church (ALC) last summer to hear Pastor Fred Downing speak of his ministry there. Describing his heavily populated north side Chicago neighborhood, he told of the tensions that might rupture into riot at any moment. He alluded to manifest resentment and hostility by black towards white. He spoke of increased evidence of "soul brother" signs in the windows of small Negro-owned businesses.

The Vanguard (Vol. 14, No. 7), Nov 1967, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The Lutheran Human Relations Association of Chicago has prepared a set of fifteen theses urging human relations reforms within the Church in celebration of the 450th anniversary of the Reformation Nov. 5.

The theses address themselves largely to the problems the church of 1967 faces in ministering faithfully for its Lord. Their concern is subsumed under the theses' title, "Reform is the Proper Celebration of Reformation."

The Vanguard (Vol. 14, No. 1), Jan-Feb 1967, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Theology professors may be working side by side with inner city pastors this summer, according to a Wheat Ridge Foundation announcement.

The inner city program, proposed by LHRAA and financed by the Wheat Ridge organization, is scheduled to begin this summer and to be in full operation by the summer of 1968.

The Vanguard (Vol. 14, No. 2), Mar 1967, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

After Pastor Joseph Lavelais of Philadelphia had conducted opening devotions at the Conference on Church and Social Change at Chicago's Concord-O'Hare Inn, Chairman Wiederaenders presented for adoption an agenda which had been mailed to participants prior to the meeting.

A motion from the floor was adopted by a large majority that the printed agenda be set aside. Voices from the floor indicated an eagerness to discuss the church's commitment and participation in filling a meaningful role in the social problems of the day as they impinge upon the church and the communities it serves.

The Vanguard (Vol. 14, No. 3), Apr-May 1967, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Cleveland's Lutheran Pastors have set in motion a project aimed at finding a more effective way of ministering to that city's intense human relations problems. The scene of one of last year's worst riots, Cleveland has relatively little to show for changing the conditions that provided the setting for last summer's outbursts.

The Vanguard (Vol. 14, No. 4), June 1967, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Valparaiso University's 1967 Workshop in Human Relations for Professional Church Workers will feature Dr. Will Campbell. Dr. Campbell, who will speak to the Human Relations Institute on the Valparaiso campus three days earlier, will lecture to Workshop participants twice.

The theme of this year's Workshop is THE COMMUNICATING MINISTRY. Dr. Campbell's first presentation will be "Listening to Those to Whom We Intend to Communicate"; his second: "Balance of Words and Acts in Ministry. "

The program will also include theological and sociological studies; a field trip to Chicago with interviews with people in ministry there; and acquainting with resources, techniques, …

The Vanguard (Vol. 14, No. 6), Sep-Oct 1967, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

An LHRAA statement on racial tension was distributed to worshippers attending a Mission Fair at Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois, Sunday, October 1.

Held only a few days after riots raged in the streets of the west Chicago suburb, the Fair provided an opportunity for LHRAA's West Suburban Chapter to interpret the meaning of Christ's mission to Christians in the riot-torn area.

The Vanguard (Vol. 13, No. 2), Mar 1966, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Good Christian people often ask members of the staff of the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, "What can we do? What can we do to become responsibly involved in the civil rights struggle?" There are many things that can and must be done. A plan that has been in the process of development for a number of years, is what LHRAA has called the Rural Summer Vacation Project. Children from the inner city, mostly from underprivileged homes-Indian American, Negro, Appalachian Mountain, et al-are taken into the homes of "host parents" for one or two weeks in rural, small-town, or …

The Vanguard (Vol. 13, No. 8), Dec 1966, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Dr. Oliver Harms, President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, has canceled a meeting originally called for December 8, in which he and his Vice-Presidents were to sit with "front-line" workers, to discuss problems attending the racial revolution as it affects the church. He made his announcement in a letter dated Nov. 16 and sent to all who had previously been invited to participate.

The Vanguard (Vol. 13, No. 5), July 1966, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The Lutheran Church in America, meeting in convention June 21-29 in Kansas City, Missouri, passed two recommendations which commit that church body to a broader and more intensive ministry to the Indian American. The two recommendations were embodied in the convention report of the LCA's Board of American Missions, and grew out of a special study conducted for the Board by Miss Henrietta Lund, consultant to the United Nations for the National Lutheran Council. Miss Lund has done a number of comprehensive studies for the LCA and other Lutheran church bodies on various aspects of the Church's ministry to the …

The Vanguard (Vol. 13, No. 1), Jan-Feb 1966, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

21 students and instructors from the University of Pennsylvania helped local Negroes erect a $10,000 community center during Christmas vacation. The community center was considered an essential support for nine Negro families who are striking for decent wages, because it will provide a focus for an economic co-operative to sustain those who are opposing the current $3 per day wage scale paid to them for sunrise to sunset labor.

The Vanguard (Vol. 13, No. 6), Aug-Sep 1966, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

In November, 1964, The Lutheran Witness commented on the Nobel Prize awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There were those who immediately responded to the article, criticizing both Dr. King and the Witness for casting him in a favorable light.

It is to be expected that there will be some who take exception also to a statement made recently by the President of the American Lutheran Church, Dr. Fredrik A. Schiotz: "Many well-intentioned people have been critical of Dr. King, calling him a Communist. The time for indulging in this luxury is over. It is time for all who …

The Vanguard (Vol. 13, No. 7), Oct-Nov 1966, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

A second meeting has been called by Dr. Oliver Harms, President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, to discuss the racial revolution and the church . The Synod's vice presidents and a selected group of churchmen who are directly concerned with urban ministry will constitute the assembly, to convene in Chicago December 8th and 9th .