The Canadian Lutheran Posts

July 7, 2021

Saint and Sinner in Disney’s Cruella

by Ted Giese In Disney’s new movie Cruella, Estella/Cruella is an orphan girl with a split personality—one half kind, the other half cruel. While on the run she falls in with a pair of pick-pocketing Dickensian grifters, Jasper and Horace, and eventually pursues her lifelong…

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July 6, 2021

The Problem of Porn

by Peter Knelson When I was a teenager, I struggled with pornography. As time went on, however, my involvement in the Church led me closer to Christ and further from pornography. But that is not everyone’s story: today pornography has permeated even into the Church…

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June 29, 2021

Forgiven

by Robert Mohns Forgiven. There is no sweeter word given by God to fallen, broken people than that! In this world of cultural upheaval, accentuated by COVID hyper-anxiety and our propensity to travel down a myriad of rabbit holes that lead us into a plethora…

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June 28, 2021

The gift of sun-power in Haiti

by Andrew Jackson “Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.” Ecclesiastes 11:7 The sun is an important part of life on our planet. It provides light to work in the day, it feeds plants, and it even gives…

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June 25, 2021

LCC/LLLC Communications interns announced for summer 2021

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) Communications and Lutheran Laymen’s League of Canada (LLLC) announced in May that they will be joining forces to offer a paid, part-time summer internship beginning in July through to August of 2021. We were overwhelmed by the excellent applications we…

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June 25, 2021

Lutherans respond to the legacy of the residential school system

CANADA – The announcement that more than 700 unmarked graves have been found near the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan has brought fresh grief to the country, as people grapple with the legacy of the residential school system. “The discovery of more unmarked…

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