Category: Education News

October 4, 2023

Dr. Gimbel accepts call as Academic Dean and Professor at CLS

EDMONTON – Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) in Edmonton has announced that Rev. Dr. James Gimbel has accepted the call to serve as Academic Dean and Professor of Theology at the seminary. The Board of Regents extended the call to Dr. Gimbel during meetings on September…

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August 29, 2023

French hymnals for students and churches in Haiti

HAITI – In mid-July, copies of Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) French hymnal—Liturgie et cantique luthériens—were distributed to students enrolled in an upcoming liturgy course from LCC’s Francophone Lutheran Liturgical Institute (Institut liturgique luthérien francophone – ILLF) being offered in cooperation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of…

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August 25, 2023

Save the date for seminary opening services

CANADA – The opening services for the new academic year at Lutheran Church–Canada’s two seminaries have now been set. Concordia Lutheran Seminary (Edmonton) will hold its opening service on September 5 at 4:30 p.m.,  during which time Rev. Dr. Joel Heck will be installed as…

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August 22, 2023

New volume of LTR now available

CANADA – The 2023 volume of Lutheran Theological Review (LTR) has now been released. This volume is dedicated to Rev. Dr. John Stephenson, who in December of last year entered retirement after serving as a professor at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (St. Catharines, Ontario) for…

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August 15, 2023

Faculty call to CLTS accepted

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – In June 2023, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) announced that Rev. Kirk Radford intends to accept a call as Assistant Professor of Theology. Rev. Radford is expected to begin teaching in the 2024-25 academic year. The delay will allow Rev. Radford…

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June 8, 2023

New artwork added to CLTS catechetical baptismal font

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – In May 2021, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) consecrated a new baptismal font in the seminary’s Martin Luther Chapel announcing an ongoing project “to add small pieces of artwork depicting the Christian Church’s ministry in Word and Sacrament, based on the…

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