The Canadian Lutheran Posts

November 27, 2014

CLTS calls for award nominations

ST. CATHARINES, Ontario – Each May at the annual Call Service, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary has the opportunity to confer two major awards on worthy pastors or lay members of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC). The recipient of the “Friend of the Seminary” award is nominated by…

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November 26, 2014

CLS community returns to seminary building following fire

EDMONTON – On November 25, the staff and students of Concordia Lutheran Seminary officially returned to the seminary building. The building had been closed following a November 12 fire in the library basement. “Psalm 137:3 reflects the spirit of what we’ve gone through,” explains seminary…

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November 25, 2014

Ukrainian Church Elects New Bishop

UKRAINE – The Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Ukraine (SELCU), meeting in convention November 17-18, elected Rev. Aleksandr Yurchenko as its new bishop. He succeeds Rev. Dr. Viktor Gräfenstein, who served as bishop for 18 years and had declined to accept nomination for another…

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November 24, 2014

LHM Nicaragua dedicates new office building in Leon

NICARAGUA – On October 24, Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) dedicated its new office building in Leon. “Lutheran Hour Ministries started its mission in this country 16 years ago during the time when Hurricane Mitch hit Nicaragua in October 1998,” noted Ricardo Arguello, LHM Office Director….

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November 21, 2014

Interstellar: Thoughtful sci-fi delivers love, evil, and a black hole

by Ted Giese Christopher Nolan’s new film Interstellar is more like his 2010 film Inception than his trilogy of Batman movies. It’s both cerebral and emotionally intense. This is no Star Trek, Star Wars space opera (space-soap-opera); Interstellar is a more “hard” sci-fi film in…

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November 20, 2014

An update on the seminary fire

NOTE (November 26, 2014): The seminary community has since returned to their building. On November 12, Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) in Edmonton suffered a fire in the library basement. The fire was later deemed to have been not accidental in origin, and classes resumed offsite….

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