Category: Feature Stories
Interstellar: Thoughtful sci-fi delivers love, evil, and a black hole
by Ted Giese Christopher Nolan’s new film Interstellar is more like his 2010 film Inception than his trilogy of Batman movies. It’s both cerebral and emotionally intense. This is no Star Trek, Star Wars space opera (space-soap-opera); Interstellar is a more “hard” sci-fi film in…
Seminary fire not accidental, classes resume offsite
NOTE (November 26, 2014): The seminary community has since returned to their building. NOTE (November 20, 2014): President James Gimbel has provided a new update on the seminary fire and recovery efforts. EDMONTON – President James Gimbel of Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) has released a…
Lois and Eunice, Servants of God
by Robert Bugbee “I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also” (2 Timothy 1:5). That was Paul, near the end of his life, writing…
Regional Mission Supervisor and Deaconess for Central America installed
by Leonardo Neitzel NICARAGUA – On October 26, 2014 Rev. Edmund and Deaconess Cherie Auger were installed as Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) regional Mission and Diaconal supervisors for Central America at a special service at the Mission Centre in Chinandega, Nicaragua. The installation was officiated over…
The Church’s Calling to Care for the Vulnerable
by Mathew Block Scripture is clear that the Church has a particular calling to care for the vulnerable. The Apostle James reminds us that “religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and…
Woman of Faith—Katie Luther: Reformer’s Wife
by Peggy Pedersen “I will cling to Christ as a burr clings to a coat!” With these words, Katie Luther gave up her breath to the Lord. On January 29, 1499, she had been born to an aristocratic family of diminished means and given the…