Article: IN BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, SHADES OF MARTIN LUTHER; AN AMERICAN PASTOR'S SCHISM WITH THE CHURCH

Andy Baudler always had a good old American knack for raising German eyebrows during his 12 years as the pastor of a Lutheran parish here.

Sometimes it was little things, like his occasional habit of grabbing bats and gloves to play softball with his confirmation class -- not heretical, perhaps, but annoying to some church elders who expected his charges to spend all their time poring over Luther's catechism.

And then there was the time someone painted a huge swastika on an asylum home for refugees in this southern German city of 45,000. Impatient when the swastika had not been removed after several days, Baudler, along with 15 kids from his confirmation class, gathered paint and brushes, ...

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