Category: Presidential Perspectives
You’re Grounded!
by Robert Mohns “You’re grounded!” “That’s the worst word ever invented,” retorted the teenager, slamming the bedroom door. For young people, the word “grounded” always seems to have a negative meaning. After one hundred days of mandated social isolation and being locked inside our…
A Letter from LCC’s President to Our Pastors: Concerning the Service of the Sacrament
June 9, 2020 Dear Brothers and Fellow Workers in the Gospel, In my last letter I focused on a few things that the Holy Scriptures and our Lutheran Confessions have to say about the physical assembly or gathering of…
Lutheran Church–Canada Statement Concerning Racism
June 4, 2020 The issue of racism is in many people’s eyes these days as a result of the numerous demonstrations and protests taking place as a result of the tragic death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of law enforcement officers. Racism…
A Letter from LCC’s President to Our Pastors: The question of how and when to reopen churches
May 21, 2020 The Ascension of Our Lord Dear Brothers and Fellow Workers in the Gospel, ‘When and how should our churches reopen?’ That is the question that I have been asked in one form or another from many of you in light of COVID-19…
The Forgotten Festival
by Timothy Teuscher The forgotten festival of the church year, The Ascension of Our Lord, took place this year on May 21, 2020. I say “forgotten” because, in spite of the fact that Jesus’ ascension rates a line in all three of the ecumenical creeds,…
A Letter from LCC’s President to Our Pastors
May 4, 2020 Dear Brothers and Fellow Workers in the Gospel, “The mutual conversation and consolation of brethren” (SA, Part III, Article IV); so I concluded my previous letter of April 21 with that quote from the Smalcald Articles. What I want to share with…
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