Category: Columns
Who gives what to whom at Christmas?
by Don Schiemann Recently a television news show featured some unique Christmas gift ideas. One gift was a particular model of Jaguar, of which the automobile company makes only 250 a year. If you care to order one, go to your Jaguar dealer and put…
Life lived in perpetual Advent
by Ian Adnams Think back a year. The world was caught in the swirl of swine flu or, more correctly, H1N1 virus. People waited in vaccine lines. Everyone learned how to sneeze into their sleeves and relearned proper hand-washing techniques. When officials tallied the final…
REVIEW: Voyage of the Dawn Treader: An odyssey in faith
by Mathew Block In what is perhaps the best of the three Narnia films, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader brings to life all the adventure of the novel while maintaining the sense of religious significance which pervades C.S. Lewis’ classic children’s series. With excellent…
Lutheran filmmaker receives international film award
Canadian, Roberto Munoz, a Lutheran pastor, received a Redemptive Storyteller Award for 2010, in the professional category. The Redemptive Film Festival, held November 13 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, honoured his feature film, Under Jakob’s Ladder. “The film is both a personal and a Lutheran story;…
Denial and blame don’t work with God
by Don Schiemann Flight engineers had delayed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger a number of times. Finally, on January 27, 1986, in spite of frost and early morning temperatures at the freezing point, the countdown went ahead. At 11:38 a.m. EST, with millions…
Gifts that keep giving and help share God’s love
by Allen Schellenberg If you have attended my presentation Christian Estate and Will Planning, you have heard me share that I have been a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Richmond, B.C. for close to 54 years. Well, I’ve checked with my mother, and although…
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