The Canadian Lutheran Posts

December 8, 2015

2016 Pastor’s Desk Diary now available

CANADA – Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (St. Catharines, Ontario) is again pleased to offer to the church the annual Pastor’s Desk Diary. It contains readings from the three-year and one-year lectionaries, including variants for the major Lutheran churches in Canada (Lutheran Church–Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Church…

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December 7, 2015

Atlantic Canada mission venture

by Ron Mohr ATLANTIC CANADA – “The Christian Church is a church in mission. From her Lord Himself she has received the mandate to ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation’ (Mark 16:15). In keeping with that mandate and…

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December 3, 2015

Canadian physicians face challenges to Freedom of Conscience

CANADA – Medical doctors across the country continue to face challenges to their freedom of conscience as a number of the provincial colleges which regulate medicine in Canada consider new regulations that would restrict physicians’ freedom on moral issues like abortion and euthanasia. The policies…

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November 26, 2015

LCC staff partner with CLWR and ELCIC to sponsor refugee family

UPDATE: We just found out they will be a family of four: a couple with two children. The paperwork to get the sponsorship moving has begun.  WINNIPEG – The national staff from Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC), along with Central District staff, are partnering together with the…

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November 24, 2015

Respecting life on Mars: The Martian in review

by Ted Giese Space exploration is dangerous, as Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi film The Martian illustrates. The movie tells the fictional story of astronaut Mark Watney, left for dead on the surface of Mars during an emergency evacuation of a NASA science mission. The stranded…

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November 23, 2015

Concordia Lutheran Seminary seeking faculty member

EDMONTON – Concordia Lutheran Seminary in Edmonton seeks to call a full-time faculty member specializing in the Old Testament. Candidates meriting serious consideration will be ordained pastors of Lutheran Church-Canada or one of its partner-churches who possess significant parish experience, an earned terminal degree (Th.D…

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