The Canadian Lutheran Posts

January 10, 2011

Recording project successful despite late launch

by James Morgan It was a perfect start for Perfect Holiday. Tara Lyn Hart’s new Christmas CD, released just in time for Christmas 2010, not only has begun raising money for Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario, but it has also returned…

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January 7, 2011

Concordia High School to move Edmonton campus, expand programs

EDMONTON — One of the city’s oldest private Christian high schools plans to expand its university-preparatory programs and attract more international students thanks to some massive changes. Concordia High School (CHS), which is associated with Lutheran Church–Canada, announced plans January 7 to move to a…

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January 5, 2011

Sure-fire predictions for 2011

by Peggy Pedersen Every year at this time people make predictions and resolutions. The predictions are always false prophecies and speculations, some based on trends or data, some not, but within all of them is fear of what the future holds. As Christians, we do…

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January 4, 2011

Christmas in the Afghan desert

by Chaplain Harold Ristau Normally, pastors have the delicate task of encouraging people to come to church without sounding too pushy. This can become tiring after many years of ministry. The one exception is Christmas. Providing Christmas services for our Canadian troops in Afghanistan was…

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January 1, 2011

Reasons for not attending a church

In online survey conducted by Lutheran Church–Canada asked respondents who said the do not regularly attend church the reasons behind their answer.  Not welcome. (This is a recurring answer.) Not interested. If God is everywhere I don’t have to go to a specific place at…

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December 31, 2010

Lutherans in Canada rallied behind Haitians in 2010

By Keven Drews ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – It would be an understatement to say 2010 was a bad year for Haiti. An earthquake in January, an outbreak of typhoid fever in April and a cholera epidemic in October and November devastated the small Caribbean nation,…

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