The Canadian Lutheran Posts

October 29, 2015

Martin Luther: Father of the Reformation

by Edward G. Kettner October 31, 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of what is considered the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. On that date Martin Luther nailed 95 theses for debate concerning the issue of indulgences onto the door of the Castle Church in…

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October 28, 2015

French Reformation hymn contest

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada’s Comité francophone liturgique invites authors, translators, poets and musicians to submit a  hymn in French rooted in Martin Luther’s Small Catechism Baptism text for the 500th anniversary of the nailing of the 95 theses. The submissions may be an original text …

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October 26, 2015

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…

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October 23, 2015

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…

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October 21, 2015

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…

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October 19, 2015

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…

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