All posts tagged Rev. David Haberstock
Why Liturgy?
by David Haberstock Why do Lutherans do liturgy? To answer the question, we first have to define what we mean by the word “liturgy.” It’s usually used by Lutherans in two ways: first, to mean the way in which Lutherans worship (with an orderly set…
In Praise of Low-Tech Worship
by David Haberstock After the unpleasantness of 2020-2022, we are starting to feel almost back to normal. But what hasn’t left me is the banality of screens. Prior to the pandemic, I was already grappling with too much screen time and its impacts. But the…
Central Region Church Workers Conference
WINNIPEG – From May 29-31, Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Central Region held its 2023 Pastors and Deacons Conference at the Holiday Inn Airport West in Winnipeg, just down the road from Synod’s office. Doxology: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel conducted this year’s conference…
Age & Fragility
by David Haberstock We all love to complain about aches and pains as we age, at least until the aches and pains are strong enough that we say with the author of Ecclesiastes that the days are such that “I have no pleasure in them”…
Catechism as pattern of the universe
by David Haberstock God our Father created the universe by speaking it into existence, and by doing so He established meaning and order in all things. We live in the aftermath of the modern era, in which society’s understanding of the world is rooted in…
Demographics is destiny?
by David Haberstock Many of you grew up in or lived through the Baby Boom—all those babies born post-war between 1946 and 1964. In 1964, the birth rate plummeted (about nine months after Kennedy’s assassination, though it had been declining before that). Culture began talking…
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