The Canadian Lutheran Posts

December 23, 2020

Christmas Light, Christmas Peace

  by Mark Smith On Christmas Eve more than a hundred years ago in a Belgium battlefield, the world stood at war on the Western Front. On one side of this bloody conflict huddled the British soldiers; on the other side, the Germans. As the…

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December 21, 2020

A Bumper Crop of New Students

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – In the first half of this calendar year, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) accepted a bumper crop of entering students—the largest number in a decade or two. Ongoing travel restrictions as a result of the pandemic, however, mean that only one…

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December 21, 2020

LCC Seminaries at Work

Where do pastors and deacons come from? They don’t grow on trees, get harvested in the forestlands of northern Canada, or come as a result of fracking, refineries, and pipelines. They are called to believe and belong to the family of our Father through the…

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December 17, 2020

“The Word Became Flesh”: Seen & Unseen

 by Kelly Klages Two Births (for Micah, born Ascension Day 2009) I feared the curse; I feared the labour pain That plagues the daughters (and the sons) of earth; But dreams would come to still my fears again While waiting on the advent of your…

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December 16, 2020

LCC releases Six Month Financial Report for 2020

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) Administrator, Dwayne Cleave, has prepared a Six Month Financial Report for 2020 which was included in the November/December Issue of The Canadian Lutheran magazine. An extended version of the report is now also available as a printable PDF Here and…

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December 14, 2020

HLMS says thanks for COVID-19 support

  HAITI – The Haiti Lutheran Mission Society (HLMS) is thanking Canadian Lutherans for their support of Haitians during the COVID-19 pandemic. “You, our faithful supporters, have continued to bless our mission,” writes Andrew Jackson, HLMS treasurer, in response to the gifts and prayers offered….

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