Category: General

October 28, 2011

New board members installed

WINNIPEG– After meeting for two days, new members of Lutheran Church–Canada’s 2011-14 Board of Directors attended Saint James Lutheran Church, Sunday, October 23 for their official installation. Their terms of office began September 1. Guest preacher, LCC’s president, Rev. Dr. Robert Bugbee based his sermon…

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September 29, 2011

A Lutheran perspective on the Pope’s visit to Germany

A Lutheran perspective on the Pope’s visit to Germany[1] Pope Benedict XVI visited Germany September 22-25, 2011. Bishop Hans-Jőrg Voigt of the SELK, Lutheran Church–Canada’s partner church in Germany, took part in the ecumenical service of the Word held inErfurtwith the head of the Roman…

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August 13, 2011

Darkness and light remembered in Berlin

For many a 50-year commemoration is cause for celebration. In Germany, however, Saturday, August 13 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall by the communist East German government. Remembering the event, the Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche (SELK), Lutheran Church–Canada’s partner church, will…

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July 24, 2011

Iranian pastor faces death penalty

by James Morgan The Supreme Court of Iran recently upheld a death sentence for a Christian pastor. The problems began for Yousef Nadarkhani pastor of the Church of Iran when authorities arrested him in his home city of Rasht in October 2009 while he attempted to…

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June 9, 2011

More a family gathering than a convention

by Ken Maher  Synod is such a foreign sounding word that Gene Roddenberry once used to describe a race of aliens in one of his television shows. For many, synod sounds like it should be an alien concept. Sometimes even those of us in the…

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April 30, 2011

The power of little words

by David Bode Have you ever noticed how important little words are? Take, for example, the difference between the words a and the. We call one the “indefinite article.” When we talk about a picture, we could be referring to any one of hundreds of…

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