Category: General

October 18, 2017

2017 Mission Newsletter released

ONLINE – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) has released the 2017 edition of its annual Mission Newsletter. “The 2017 Mission Newsletter presents just a few snapshots of what the Lord Jesus has accomplished in the lives of people through the missions and social ministry of Lutheran Church–Canada…

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November 2, 2016

History is Bunk

by Norman J. Threinen “History is bunk.” So said Henry Ford in an interview recorded by the Chicago Tribune in 1916. Grade school students, who have been subjected to history as a bewildering collection of largely irrelevant dates which they were forced to memorize, may…

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September 20, 2013

Video: President Bugbee preaches at LCMS President’s Installation

ST. LOUIS, Missouri – President Robert Bugbee of Lutheran Church–Canada preached the Service of Installation for President Matthew C. Harrison of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) September 14 in St. Louis. “It’s an unexpected honour to be asked to serve our Missouri Synod friends in…

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June 21, 2013

Report from LCC district office on southern Alberta flooding

(Ongoing updates at http://www.lccabc.ca/blog/2013/06/21/alberta-flooding/) by Rev. Don Schiemann No doubt we have all seen video footage and news reports of the extreme flooding which has taken place in Calgary and the surrounding areas. As of Friday morning, 25 communities in the City of Calgary have…

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February 22, 2013

Life in seminary

———- For our January/February issue, The Canadian Lutheran focused on how God calls pastors to serve the Church. To accompany Ed Kettner’s article on that topic, we interviewed four current seminary students to see what life in seminary is really like. Along the way, we…

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December 18, 2012

Lutheran Church–Canada participates in inter-Lutheran discussions

  FORT WAYNE, Ind. – A third round of theological discussions among representatives of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), the North American Lutheran Church (NALC), and Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) took place December 13-14 at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. LCMS President Dr. Matthew…

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