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You are the Light of the World
by Glenn E. Schaeffer Who wrote the following words? “We live on earth for no other purpose than to be helpful to others. Otherwise it would be best for God to take away our breath and let us die as soon as we are baptized…
All the Time in the World
by Robert Bugbee You don’t have all the time in the world. I don’t, either. It is not unhealthy to think about that. It’s actually helpful. You may have heard someone say after the death of a loved one, “I wish I had told her…
Preparations underway for 2019 youth gathering
CANADA – Preparations are already well underway for Lutheran Church–Canada’s 2019 National Youth Gathering (NYG). Youth from across the country will gather at Trinity Western University (Langley, British Columbia) from July 5-9, 2019 under the theme “Worthless: There is Nothing You Are Worth Less Than.”…
Blade Runner 2049: Souls searching for a miracle
by Ted Giese With Blade Runner 2049, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve provides an admirable sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner. Set 30 years after the first film, the dystopian future Villeneuve presents is grimmer and bleaker. Advances in technology, collapses in the…
Criminal Code protections for clergy, worship services to be retained
CANADA – Contentious plans to remove protections from the Criminal Code preventing interference with clergy and the disturbance of worship services have been reversed, following a vote by the Standing Committee of Justice and Human Rights on November 8, 2017. The proposed changes had been…
LCC Congregations invited to vote on changes to the constitution
Editor’s Note: The letter from Rev. Schallhorn previously referred to Article XI Section 4. That citation is from the amended constitution as adopted by the 2017 convention. The letter should instead refer to Article XIV Section 4, which is the section in the current (unamended)…