Eighty Easters Ago: The Mass Resignation of Lutheran Pastors from the Nazified Church of Norway
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On Easter Sunday, 1942, the moment of truth arrived. Ninety-three percent of the clergy resigned from the Church of Norway in order to fulfill their oaths of ordination and serve the people whom God had entrusted to their care.