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Each congregation generally has a name they call themselves, which frequently differs from the name used in this article. In particular, First Apostolic adherents would recoil at being labelled "Laestadian" because for them, "Laestadians" are the opposing side of the 1973 schism. In the interest of editorial clarity, this article uses an ...
The Laestadian Movement: Disputes and Divisions 1861 – 2000, by Warren H. Hepokoski We Sinners , a novel about Laestadianism by former LLC member Hanna Pylväinen. The End of Drum-Time , a 2023 novel by Hanna Pylväinen set northern Scandinavia in the 1850's, in which primary characters include Lars Levi Laestadius (fictionalized) and Sámi ...
The Laestadian Lutheran Church takes its name from Martin Luther and Lars Levi Laestadius. 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 ...
In the Nordic Firstborn Laestadian revival, the movement works within the official Church of Sweden, which is also called the "Lutheran Folk Church". The Church of Sweden has for a long time recognized the Laestadian movement and has allowed them to hold their own services in the state churches, both before and after the separation of church ...
The Firstborn are the largest Laestadian subgroup in the US. There are also many Firstborn Laestadian congregations in Finland and Norway, one congregation in Denmark, and some activity in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Germany and Great Britain. American and Canadian congregations always use the King James Version of the Bible. In ...
What is unique about the UMC schism? The UMC, the second-largest Protestest denomination in the United States (according to Pew data from 2014), is not alone in facing denominational divisions ...
By 1919, this number grew to 42. In 1938, under the guidance of Shoghi Effendi, the first Local Spiritual Assembly was established in Minneapolis. By 1979, the Bahá'í population in Minneapolis reached about 80. [102] The Bahá'í Center in Minneapolis, located in the Central neighborhood, is a block away from where George Floyd was killed in ...
Child welfare worker Johanna Hurtig, Ph.D., herself a Conservative Laestadian, allegedly uncovered the abuse in the course of her research on sex abuse in the Finnish Lutheran church as a whole. After she was ridiculed and dismissed by the Finnish Conservative Laestadian leadership, Hurtig's findings were reported to the media, leading to wide ...