Category: Columns

October 26, 2012

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…

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October 24, 2012

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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October 12, 2012

Martin Luther: Sinner/Saint

by Mathew Block Occasionally when sharing my faith with others, I will be met with the reply: “You’re a Lutheran? But don’t you know the terrible things that Martin Luther did?” More often than not, these people are referring to Luther’s treatise On the Jews…

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September 5, 2012

Truth

by Peggy Pederson Pilate asked Jesus: “What is Truth?” But Truth was standing right in front of him, because Truth is a person. Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” Now in the middle of US Presidential elections, “Spin” is flying…

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August 14, 2012

LCC on the road: “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few”—Theological education in Nicaragua

by Leonardo Neitzel NICARAGUA – It has been amazing to see the fields of sandias (watermelons) in Nicaragua these days, even though it has not rained much this year. As one drives on the highways, large, grown-up watermelons are easily spotted, lying in the fields…

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August 13, 2012

By the renewing of your mind

by Mathew Block “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). This was the advice St. Paul gave to the Christians in Rome nearly 2,000 years ago. It’s advice Christians today…

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