Category: Education News

February 4, 2010

Preparing 21st-century pastors

Looking at a new seminary curriculum  By Edward Kettner  EDMONTON – After three years of questioning and evaluating itself, Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) inaugurated a new curriculum this fall. What was wrong with the old one? In terms of theological content, absolutely nothing! The eternal…

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December 16, 2009

Seminary education still a “lively concern”

WINNIPEG – Stakeholders in the deliberations and findings of LCC’s Task Force on Cost-efficient, Sustainable, Seminary Education can avoid an adversarial process by participating in “regular, candid discussions,” says the group’s chairman. “Even if the final recommendations of the task force do not meet with…

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December 14, 2009

Focus on education at December meetings

WINNIPEG – Two recent meetings centred around Lutheran Church–Canada’s higher education institutions and programs. President Robert Bugbee convened a meeting of the higher education Advisory Council Wednesday, December 9. The council includes the presidents of LCC’s seminaries and university college: Rev. Dr. Thomas Winger (CLTS,…

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December 14, 2009

Lutherans contribute to Brazilian society: seminary president

EDMONTON – Lutherans have contributed to Brazil’s socio-political-economic culture during the past 100-plus years, says a South American seminary president. Rev. Gerson Linden, director of Seminário Concórdia, São Leopoldo, Brazil, recently told students, faculty and friends of Concordia Lutheran Seminary, Edmonton, (CLS), that Lutherans have…

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November 26, 2009

Enrolment at CUCA “steady as we go”

EDMONTON – Enrolment in church-work programs at Concordia University College of Alberta (CUCA) remained “steady” this fall, says a senior administrator. “I’m not seeing any huge shifts in terms of the numbers in the program,” said Paul Schoepp, director of church-work programs at CUCA. “It’s…

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November 2, 2009

Prepare for Christmas with music

ST. CATHARINES –Prepare for the Christmas season by attending a special event at Hernder Estate Wines December 11. Sponsored by Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, Songs For His Season will feature musicians Tara Lynn Hart, a Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) winner, and John Rapp, a…

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