Category: Columns

December 6, 2012

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…

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November 13, 2012

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)…

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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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