Category: Table Talk
Lutheran Church-Canada in numbers
Editor’s note: An image layering problem resulted in the province of Quebec being unintentionally hidden from view in the print edition of the July/August 2015 issue of The Canadian Lutheran. We apologize for the error. You can download a corrected pdf of the article here….
Further Up and Further In
by Mathew Block I grew up in Saskatchewan, so you can understand when I say I don’t have much mountain climbing experience. But I have been lucky enough on a couple of occasions, while visiting more topologically diverse provinces, to do a bit of hiking…
The End of Hope
by Mathew Block “I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive. But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.” –…
The Martyrs’ Message
by Mathew Block On February 15, Christians around the world shuddered as news of the Islamic State’s most recent atrocity was publicized. The terrorist organization released a video that day in which they beheaded 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians en masse. “Their only words were ‘Jesus,…
“Lord, to whom shall we go?”
by Mathew Block It’s something I grew up singing regularly as part of the liturgy, right before the Gospel reading: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John 6:68). The verse is a potent reminder of the power of…
God in the Flesh: The meaning of Christmas
by Mathew Block When it comes to Christmas, the picture of the baby Jesus asleep in a manger is etched in our cultural consciousness. We imagine the little Lord Jesus laying down His sweet head in the hay, while stars twinkle away in the sky….
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