Category: Columns

February 23, 2017

Grace for resolution breakers

by Glenn E. Schaeffer How’s it going with your New Year’s resolutions? Are you still on that diet? Are you faithfully going to the gym? Are you spending more time with family and less time at work? Are you getting your spending habits under control?…

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February 15, 2017

LCC President Bugbee will not stand for reelection

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) President Robert Bugbee has announced in a new letter to the church that he will not be standing for reelection at the 2017 Synodical Convention. “I write today to inform the church that I cannot accept nomination for a fourth…

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February 14, 2017

Christ Alone, Christ Forever

by Robert Bugbee The 500th Anniversary Year of Luther’s Reformation is here. If you’re like me, you remember Reformation Sundays when preachers, articles, and bulletin covers recounted what were called the three  “solas” of the Reformation: sola gratia (by grace alone), sola fide (by faith…

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February 13, 2017

Look to Christ

by Mathew Block “I had no love for this righteous and angry God, but secretly hated Him, and thought to myself: ‘Isn’t it enough that God has condemned us to everlasting death because of Adam’s sin and that we must suffer so much trouble and…

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January 31, 2017

Silence raises questions of faith

by Ted Giese Martin Scorsese’s Silence is an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel of the same name. It is the story of two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Father Rodrigues and Father Garrpe, infiltrating Japan nineteen years after the authorities had banned Christianity and enacted a…

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January 12, 2017

Rogue One: A New Force in the Star Wars Franchise

by Ted Giese With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards goes back to that galaxy far, far away that kids and adults first fell in love with way back in 1977. This new film is another prequel but, unlike the George Lucas’…

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