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A Reformation Moment: Making the Most of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
by Mathew Block Sometime around the year 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the mechanical movable type printing press. And the world changed. Gutenberg’s press allowed book production on a scale never before seen in Europe. Before the printing press, books were produced slowly through the painstaking…
Reforming Our Church
by Paul Schallhorn Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is about to change.This year, LCC’s three districts meeting in convention called on Synod to restructure. In other words, they’re asking LCC to change the way it’s built. What exactly we look like in the end depends to a…
CCMS begins work on restructuring synod
WINNIPEG – From August 31 to September 1, Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Commission on Constitutional Matters and Structure met in Winnipeg to begin discussions related to the restructuring of synod. Earlier this year, each of LCC’s three districts voted in convention to request the CCMS research…
The Reformation lived and prayed
by Robert Bugbee Lutherans everywhere are gearing up to mark the 500th anniversary of that day—October 31, 1517—when a little-known monk, teaching at a fledgling university at the edge of nowhere, set events in motion which radically changed the established church. Some people lament the…
New school year underway at LCC’s two seminaries
CANADA – Classes are well underway at Lutheran Church–Canada’s two seminaries, and enrollment is up. An opening service was held at Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) in Edmonton on September 8, with President James Gimbel preaching. Several weeks later, on September 21, CLS formally installed Rev….
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