Category: Education News

November 27, 2013

FaithLife Lecture to address Opera and the Christian faith

EDMONTON – The Canadian Centre for Scholarship and the Christian Faith (CCSCF), with the sponsorship of FaithLife Financial, will hold its annual FaithLife Lecture at Concordia University College of Alberta (CUCA) on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Tegler Centre. The lecture…

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November 12, 2013

Dr. Gimbel accepts call to serve as CLS President

EDMONTON – Concordia Lutheran Seminary has announced that Rev. Dr. James Gimbel has accepted the call to serve as the seminary’s President, with plans to begin in January 2014. “I have completed deliberating on the Call,” Dr. Gimbel wrote in an email to staff and…

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November 7, 2013

Annual Pastor’s Desk Diary now available for order

ST. CATHARINES, Ontario – Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary has announced its annual pastor’s desk diary is now available for order. It contains readings from the three-year and one-year lectionaries, including variants for the major Lutheran churches in Canada (LCC, ELCIC, WELS). The original work of…

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October 28, 2013

Edmonton seminary calls new president

EDMONTON – The Board of Regents of Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) has extended a call to Rev. Dr. James R. Gimbel to become its next president. The action was taken after the seminary’s electors conducted interviews and cast their votes on Friday, October 25. Dr. Gimbel has…

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October 17, 2013

Sacred Music and Romantic Verve: Upcoming concerts from CUCA

EDMONTON – The next few weeks in Edmonton will see the Concordia University College of Alberta musical community host two special concerts. “Lord Make Me an Instrument” is the theme of Concordia’s 13th annual Sacred Music Festival, featuring renowned Canadian choral composer Eleanor Daley, along…

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October 15, 2013

Intensive PAT session in Ontario

ST. CATHARINES, Ontario – The Pastors with Alternative Training (PAT) program had a special session at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario on October 2-5. Five students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds took an intensive course on the Lutheran Confessions, with…

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