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Edmonton seminary to honour German bishop
EDMONTON – The Rev. Hans-Jörg Voigt, Bishop of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (SELK), will receive the honourary Doctor of Divinity degree at Concordia Lutheran Seminary’s Sacred Convocation in late May. News of the seminary faculty’s action in granting this honour was recently…
Jesus’ right-hand man
by Mathew Block You can understand why the other disciples were angry. James and John had approached Jesus in secret and asked to be given authority above the rest. “Let one of us sit at your right,” they requested, “and the other at your left…
Convention workbook now online
WINNIPEG – The workbook for Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) upcoming convention is now available online. The workbook contains reports from various LCC-affiliated agencies, including synod’s officers, boards and commissions, the three districts, synod’s educational institutions, and LCC Auxiliaries and Listed Service Organizations. It also includes overtures…
CCSCF holds successful third conference
EDMONTON – The Canadian Centre for Scholarship and the Christian Faith (CCSCF) held its third annual conference the weekend of March 21-22 at Concordia University College of Alberta. Rev. Dr. Bill Anderson, Director of the CCSCF, reports that this year’s conference continued the trend of…
New French and Chinese resources from Lutheran Laymen’s League
CANADA – Lutheran Laymen’s League of Canada (LLLC) has announced the publication of Coping with Cancer in French and Chinese. It is the second title from Lutheran Hour Ministries’ (LHM) Project Connect series to be translated with the assistance of pastors of Lutheran Church–Canada. There…
President Lehman returns home following hospitalization, surgery
EDMONTON – In an e-mail to President Robert Bugbee, LCC President Emeritus Edwin Lehman reports that he returned home March 20 after almost seven weeks in hospital. He had undergone surgery in mid-February to remove a cancerous kidney, and is now gradually regaining strength. “As…
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