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Holden event targets issues on Haiti L
utherans will gather at Holden Village, Chelan, Wash., June 18-25 in memory of Ben Splichal Larson, who died in the Haiti earth- quake in 2010.
Participants will explore topics related to Haiti: culture, including art, dance and religion; international development; global mission and accompaniment; theology of the cross and suffering; creative writ- ing; storytelling and global music. The faculty includes Louis
Dorvilier, Haiti representative for Lutheran World Federation; Joseph Livenson Lauvanus, president of the Lutheran Church of Haiti; and Bill Nathan, Walnes Cangas and Renee Dietrich from the St. Joseph Home for Boys in Haiti where Lar- son, his wife and cousin were serv- ing as seminarians during the earth- quake. Corrine Denis, a pastor of Cross Lutheran Church, Burlington, Wis., will teach creative writing and expression related to grief, tragedy and suffering. Larson’s parents, Judd and April Ulring Larson, pastors of First
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Roman Catholic church loses about 1 percent of its members each year, he said. He believes the shifts will lead to a smaller, more committed core of Roman Catholics and fewer secular privileges for the church.
Mormons delaying marriage
A modern nonchalance toward mar- riage is worrying Thomas S. Monson, president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and other Mormon leaders, who addressed the issue at the church’s recent all-male General Conference. “If you are a young man of appropriate age and are
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Lutheran Church, Duluth, Minn., will lead Bible study based on their son’s Scripture-inspired songs. “It’s time to open our ears and
hearts to listen to the Haitian peo- ple and to one another so we might best respond to the dear ones of Haiti,” said Renee Splichal Larson, Larson’s widow and event orga- nizer. “It’s not only the buildings of Haiti that are in need of rebuilding but also trusted relationships with the outside world. … There are still people living in tent camps, there is still rubble to be cleared and there are even people still buried in the rubble.”
Because of the expense of bring- ing international faculty to Holden (
www.holdenvillage.org), gifts in memory of Larson and in honor of the Haitian people are being received at the Community Foun- dation of Greater Dubuque (www.
dbqfoundation.org), 700 Locust St., Suite 195, Dubuque, IA 52001. All remaining funds will be given to the ongoing support to the peo- ple of Haiti.
not married, don’t waste time in idle pursuits,” Apostle Richard G. Scott urged. Marriage is a core Mormon teaching and temple marriage is a prerequisite for the highest Mormon heaven. In heavily Mormon Utah, the median age for first-time brides has jumped from 20 in 1970 to 22 in 2008, and from 22 to 24 for men.
Those Easter ‘texts’ Christians in Kenya were busy tex- ting about the Resurrection over the Easter weekend, said some Kenyan church leaders. Of the country’s 40 million people, nearly 20 million have mobile phones. Some texts were taken from Scripture, while others
Quote We’re down in numbers, we’re aging, we feel the pressure to do whatever we can. If this is the way the younger generation is looking things up and is communicating, then this is the place to be.
Benedictine Abbot Caedmon Holmes of Portsmouth [R.I.] Abbey about the monks’ efforts to use Facebook and social media to find new members for the aging abbey.
were more creative, such as: “If you have Jesus’ number, call and tell him not to go to Jerusalem. There are peo- ple who want to crucify him. I do not have airtime to call him now.”
Longer life, less church Researchers at two of Britain’s top universities claim church attendance in many Western nations is falling because people are living longer and therefore have less fear of death. The result, the studies say, is a “graying church.” In Britain, 1 in 4 older adults (65 or older) attends church, while just 11 percent of those between 16 and 44 are regular churchgoers.
Corrections
The student government at Cali- fornia Lutheran University, Thou- sand Oaks, did not vote to change the student constitution Feb. 28, as was reported by the Ventura County Star. The student govern- ment only voted to put the sug- gested change before the student body for a vote. Students rejected that proposed change April 5-6 (May, page 44). • ELCA Region 7 includes eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, New Eng- land and the Slovak Zion Synod (May, page 23). • Martin Luther and wife Katherine von Bora lived a half-millennium ago (May, page 41). • Gary A. Sorensen is a lay- person (May, page 49).
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