Category: Feature Stories
The Canadian Lutheran: Our Most Popular Articles in 2014
ONLINE – As 2015 gets underway, The Canadian Lutheran is looking back over the last year to see which articles published online were our most popular. Our most popular feature article of 2014 is also one of our most recent. Dr. Karl Persson’s “The Shadow…
Christmas is about Jesus
by Robert Bugbee “Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (St. John 1:17). Christmas is about Jesus Christ. That is as it should be. The faith of Christians is to be centered on Jesus Christ. The whole mission of God’s Church in the world comes…
The Shadow of Christmas
by Karl Persson “They said there’ll be snow at Christmas. They said there’ll be peace on Earth. But instead it just kept on raining. A veil of tears for the virgin birth.” So sings Greg Lake, disaffected by Christmas—and he is not alone. Perhaps it…
God in the Flesh: The meaning of Christmas
by Mathew Block When it comes to Christmas, the picture of the baby Jesus asleep in a manger is etched in our cultural consciousness. We imagine the little Lord Jesus laying down His sweet head in the hay, while stars twinkle away in the sky….
Word and mind-games in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
by Ted Giese Francis Lawrence’s Mockingjay: Part 1 is the third movie in the film franchise based on the popular young adults book series Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Picking up after the events of the second film, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen finds herself under…
The Holidays… How Soon?
by James Morgan How soon? It’s a question I ask myself every year about how early my friends, family, and I should observe the festive season. In the Church, Christmas begins on December 25 when we celebrate the birth of Christ, and it continues for…
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