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When the Lutheran Free Church joined the ALC in 1963, its publishing house, Messenger Press (established 1922), was also added. Augsburg, and Wartburg before it, had published the old ALC denominational magazine The Lutheran Standard , which had ancestry back to the 1840s in the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio .
Nineteenth-century wooden and iron altar rails in St Pancras Church, Ipswich. The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, [1] [2] from the nave and other parts that contain the congregation.
Altar and pulpit fellowship describes an ecumenical collaboration between two Christian organizations, and is a Lutheran term for full communion, [1] or communio in sacris. [2] Altar refers to the altar in Christian churches, which holds the sacrament of Holy Communion. Pulpit refers to the pulpit, from which a pastor preaches.
In the liturgical traditions of Western Christianity, the Epistle side is the term used to designate the side of a church on which the Epistle is read during a church service. It is the right-hand side of the chancel as viewed by the congregation from the nave. [1] The Gospel side is the other side of the chancel, where the Gospel is read.
In Lutheran churches, as well as many Anglican and Methodist churches designed with a divided chancel, the pulpit is located on the Gospel side of the chancel (from which the Gospel is read and the sermon is delivered) while a lectern is located on the Epistle side of the sanctuary, with the latter being used by readers to vocalize the other ...
The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was an American and Canadian Lutheran church body that existed from 1962 to 1987. It was headquartered in New York City and its publishing house was Fortress Press .
Jerry H. Miller was the fourth President of California Lutheran University, from 1981-1992.Under his tenure, Cal Lutheran finalized a $70-million expansion plan and built a library, chapel, science center, and residence hall.
Messenger Press was the publishing house of the Lutheran Free Church (LFC). At the time of the merger of the Lutheran Free Church with other church bodies to form the "new" American Lutheran Church, Messenger Press merged with the other publishing houses to form Augsburg Fortress