Category: Columns
Listen up!
by Mathew Block A boy is playing video games when his mother comes into the room. “Sean,” she says, “can you take out the garbage?” “In a minute,” he replies, eyes still on the screen. Ten minutes later his mother returns. Sean is still playing…
A stone along the way, an angel in the sky
by Robert Bugbee The spot is in open country. It’s near Stotternheim, a village close to the city of Erfurt in former East Germany. A stone marks the place. A few trees surround it, and a sign tells the story to tourists. It’s where…
Joy comes with the morning
by Mathew Block O come, Thou Dayspring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine advent here Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death’s dark shadows put to flight. So goes a verse from the well-loved Advent hymn “O come, O come Emmanuel.” In the…
LCC on the road: Growth in Ukraine
by Robert Bugbee Beloved sisters and brothers in Canada, After flights from Winnipeg to Toronto, Toronto to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Vienna, and finally Frankfurt to Odessa, I arrived in Ukraine November 7. Bishop Viktor Graefenstein of the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Ukraine (SELCU)…
Why the Reformation still matters
by Peggy Pedersen On October 31, 1517 Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral. If that hammer could have announced the seismic changes to come in Europe and the Christian Church, its echoes would have shook the world. Today, however, it…
Our beloved family… in Australia and around the world!
by Robert Bugbee It helps me to think of our synod as a family. It’s a long way from Dartmouth in the east to Port Alberni in the west, a long way from Kingsville in the south to places like LaRonge and the Peace River…
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