The Canadian Lutheran Posts

April 4, 2022

Ukraine Update: Serving God by serving His people

UKRAINE – The following update is provided by Rev. Valery Verba of the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Ukraine (SELCU), a partner church of Lutheran Church–Canada: The story I want to share is not over yet, but I pray this chapter will end soon….

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March 31, 2022

Convention 2022: Workbook released, presidential nominees announced

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) has released the workbook for its upcoming synodical convention to be held June 10-13, 2022 in Edmonton, Alberta. Included in the workbook is information on nominations as well as other important convention information, including overtures and reports from synodical departments,…

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March 31, 2022

New Reinhardt hymn for our Ukraine brothers and sisters

ONTARIO – Be Near Your People, Lord, We Pray is a new hymn written by Rev. Kurt E. Reinhardt, pastor in Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)’s East Region, serving Trinity Lutheran Church in Kurtzville, Ontario. Pastor Reinhardt shares that this hymn was written for our dear brothers…

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March 30, 2022

Rich or Poor

by M.L. Smith Several years ago, Harvard University invited Mother Theresa to fly to America to give a commencement address. The invitation stated that they desired “the most famous person in one of the world’s poorest nations, to address the world’s richest nation.” Mother Theresa…

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March 29, 2022

Don’t Look Up: Last laugh or last gasp?

by Ted Giese In Don’t Look Up, director Adam McKay uses the fictional threat of an impending Earth-bound comet impact and reaction to this news as an allegory for climate change. Written prior to the COVID-19 pandemic but with filming starting in 2020, the movie…

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March 22, 2022

Ukraine Update: Day 26 of Russian invasion

UKRAINE – The following update is provided by Rev. Oleksiy Navrotskyy, Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) Missionary to the Ukraine and was written on March 21, 2022: It is 26th day of Russian aggression against Ukraine. More than 3 million Ukrainians (mostly women and children) have had…

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