Category: Columns
Keeping youth where they belong
by Ian Adnams In July I attended by my sixth Lutheran Church–Canada National Youth Gathering, this time in Edmonton. The first for me was in 1995 at Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta, not so fondly remembered by many for its hourly fire alarms…
Where’s Walther…in our subscription to the Lutheran Confessions?
by Timothy Teuscher Every congregation and pastor of Lutheran Church–Canada subscribes to the Lutheran Confessions as found in The Book of Concord. This is a legacy inherited from the founding father of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, C. F. W. Walther. In a number of his…
Where’s Walther…in our pulpits?
by Timothy Teuscher “He was a preacher, too, and never charged money for his preaching, and it was worth it” Mark Twain once quipped. While humorous, his words are also rather sobering because there is probably more truth in them than we would care to…
The church is full of sinners
by Judith Burns Anne Rice, one of the first modern authors to write about vampires, has been in the news of late but for another reason. On August 4 she declared: “In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.” Later she added,…
Lutherans commemorate presentation of Lutheran doctrine
by Rev. Dr. Jose Pfaffenzeller June 25 marks the 480th anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Emperor Charles V. It is one of the confessional symbols that identify the Evangelical Lutheran Church and is like the Lutheran Church’s “birth certificate” because it…
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