College, for many an oldtime minister, was where his young people lost their faith. And this was just true enough for those experiment-minded conservatives, the Missouri Synod Lutherans, to see what they could do about it. What they did has grown into a chain of churches as live-wire and enthusiastic as any in the country, with congregations made up entirely of college students.
The movement began to pick up headway in 1940, when the Missouri Synod appointed Dr. Reuben William Hahn executive secretary of the Student Service Commission in Chicago. Today, the commission directs...
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