Category: Feature Stories
Is LCC now the largest Lutheran church body in Canada?
by Mathew Block As religious attendance in Canada continues to decrease, we may have reached a point where Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is now the largest Lutheran church body in Canada—if, that is, a reported massive drop in membership in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada…
Christ Incarnate: Love Revealed and Given
by M.L. Smith “God is love” (1 John 4:8). These three words contain a universe of meaning. But in the Christian confession, they are not an abstraction or a sentiment. They are flesh and blood. They are Christ crucified and risen. They are a pierced…
Open Wide Your Hand – Sharing God’s Love with the Homeless
by Adam Chandler “For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have Me…” (Matthew 26:11). Christ Himself declares there will always be poverty. We can feel helpless, as a result, when we consider the prospects of helping the impoverished and…
The Lord is Near: A Tribute to My Mother
by M.L. Smith “The Lord is near to the broken-hearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” – Psalm 34:18 Grief is a road no one chooses, yet in this fallen world, it is a path we must all tread. There are no words that can…
Loneliness in the Body of Christ
by Jonathan Kraemer All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong? — Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles Where can the lonely, those who do not have adequate social connections, find belonging? If you were…
The Sign of Jonah
by Joel D. Heck “But [Jesus] answered them: An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah” — Matthew 12:39 During my days as a university instructor in theology, I…
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