The Canadian Lutheran Posts

November 26, 2019

2019 Advent Devotions

ONLINE – The season of Advent begins on December 1. Christians seeking to spend more time in devotion and prayer during this period will benefit from free, newly released devotionals from Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots (LAMP) and Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM). LHM’s 2019…

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November 25, 2019

LCC names new Communications Director

WINNIPEG – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) has announced that it has named Alex Steinke as the church’s new Communications Director. Steinke will start her position on January 6, 2020. “As a lifelong member of Lutheran Church–Canada, I am thrilled to have this opportunity to use my…

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November 21, 2019

Lutherans for Life-Canada hold joint event with EDLYA, consider Christian response to end of life issues

ST. CATHARINES, Ontario – Lutherans for Life-Canada (LFLC) held its Annual General Meeting on November 2, 2019 at Grace Lutheran Church in St. Catharines, holding joint sessions with EDLYA (East District Lutheran Young Adults), who were holding their Fall Retreat at the church over the…

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November 20, 2019

Alberta considers bill to protect conscience rights of physicians

ALBERTA – Lutheran Church–Canada echoes the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) in its support of Bill 207, a private member’s bill which would ensure health care providers in Alberta are not forced to participate in the provision of services like abortion or physician assisted suicide…

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November 19, 2019

Doctor Sleep: Adequate adaptation raises questions of faith

by Ted Giese In Doctor Sleep, Dan Torrance, a hospice orderly and recovering alcoholic, has a psychic connection with a young teen girl, Abra Stone, that escalates when a nomadic group of gypsy-like psychic vampires called the True Knot led by matriarch Rose the Hat,…

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November 18, 2019

LLL-Canada elects new board members

CANADA – In early September, members of Lutheran Laymen’s League of Canada (LLL-C) elected board member Brian Wardle of Kitchener, Ontario to the Board of Directors. Re-elected members also included Gordon Schoepp of Onoway, Alberta and Stephen Braaten of Regina, Saskatchewan. New members serve a…

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