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Seminaries to stream convocation services online

Thursday, May 23, 2013

ONLINE – Lutheran Church–Canada’s two seminaries have announced they will both be live-streaming this year’s convocation services. During the ceremonies, pastoral candidates will receive their first calls and vicars will receive their year-term placements. On Friday, May 24, Concordia Lutheran Seminary (Edmonton) will be holding its Sacred Convocation in the Robert Tegler Student Centre at Concordia University College of Alberta. The event will be broadcast live, beginning at 7:00 p.m. (MST). Visit http://www.concordiasem.ab.ca/CLSTV.php to watch online. On Saturday, May 25, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (St. Catharines, Ontario) will hold its Call Service ...

LCC writer releases book of poetry

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

VICTORIA, B.C. – Author Peggy Pedersen's first poetry book—entitled A Lamb within the Fold—was released earlier this year and is now available for purchase. Peggy is a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Victoria, and a frequent contributor to The Canadian Lutheran magazine both in print and online. The book begins with an introduction chronicling Peggy's spiritual journey, which included early beginnings in the Southern Baptist church before making ventures into Shaivism, Hare Krishnas, Roman Catholicism, and Orthodox Judaism. A medical scare made Peggy return to the question of Christianity anew. ...

Iron Man 3: Sin, when fully grown, brings forth death

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

by Ted Giese Iron Man 3 is a superhero action film with some drama thrown in. As a story, it centers around the theme that actions have consequences. Seems simple enough. The movie starts out with Tony Stark, the man behind the Iron Mask, saying "A famous man once said we create our own demons." Within minutes this is playing out, as we see a flashback to a New Year's party in 1999. Here we see Stark in a one night stand with a promising young scientist, leaving her a note ...

Reach out Canada: The countdown is on!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

WINNIPEG - In a little more than six weeks hundreds of LCC Lutherans will gather for Lutheran Church—Canada's first-ever national evangelism conference: Reach Out Canada (July 5-7 at the Canad Inns Destination Centre – Fort Gary in Winnipeg). Reach Out Canada is designed to help everyone share their faith naturally in every-day situations as part of who they are in Christ. The event, being planned in conjunction with Lutheran Hour Ministries and Lutheran Laymen's League of Canada, features Rev. Gregory Seltz (Speaker of The Lutheran Hour) and Rev. John Nunes (CEO ...

New Bishop for Finnish Lutherans

Monday, May 13, 2013

FINLAND – On May 4, Rev. Risto Soramies was installed in Helsinki as the Bishop of the newly organized Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland. The installation took place in the Sacred Heart Chapel of the Lutheran Evangelical Association of Finland. Bishop Soramies served many years as a missionary to Turkish immigrants to Germany. In the early 2000s, he was founding pastor of Istanbul Lutheran Church in Turkey. He speaks German and Turkish fluently, in addition to Finnish. Bishop Soramies succeeds Bishop Matti VÃ¤isinen who is retiring. Bishop VÃ¤isinen—along with the Swedish ...

Christians in Canada drop to 67% of population

Friday, May 10, 2013

by James Morgan A new set of facts on faith in Canada are out. Statistics Canada has released the results of the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) which gives an indication of various attributes of Canadian society, including the religious affiliation. Canada now has an approximate population of 32,852,300 people, and 67.3% of these identified themselves as affiliated somehow with the Christian faith. That's down from 2001's numbers when 77% of Canadians identified as Christian. 38.7% of Canadians identified themselves as Roman Catholic, making that denomination the largest per capita in Canada. ...

Anglicans and Lutherans hold summit on biblical marriage and sexuality

Thursday, May 9, 2013

DALLAS, Texas - A landmark ecumenical summit took place May 3-5, 2013 at Church of the Holy Communion in, Dallas, Texas. The theme of the meeting was "Biblical Teaching on Marriage and Sexuality." Presentations and discussion focused on the shared historic understanding of marriage as a holy estate, divinely created by God to be the union of man and woman. The gathering was the result of ongoing multi-lateral consultations between the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), Lutheran Church-Canada (LCC), The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), and the North American Lutheran ...