Category: Feature Stories
Time travel and Woody Grant: Reviewing Nebraska
by Ted Giese Nebraska tells the story of Woody Grant, an elderly man, who upon receiving a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize notice in the mail has it in his head that he’s won the prize and needs to go to Lincoln to collect his…
New resolution? New creation!
by Jonathan F. Grothe Having long since marked the sidereal cycle, human beings around the world celebrate the start of a “new year,” albeit not at the same time. Jewish communities and the Chinese, to give just two examples, reckon the new year differently from…
Visiting Honduras
HONDURAS – Following the recent Fourth Convention of the Lutheran Church Synod of Nicaragua (ILSN), President Robert Bugbee of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) flew to neighbouring Honduras to visit sites where the Nicaraguan church hopes to expand its outreach. The ILSN has had a missionary pastor,…
Gene Veith keynote speaker for CCSCF’s third annual conference
EDMONTON – The Canadian Centre for Scholarship and the Christian Faith is preparing for its third annual conference. This year’s theme is “The Fine Arts and the Christian Faith.” The conference will be held March 21-22 at Concordia University College of Alberta (CUCA) in Edmonton….
Nicaraguan church holds biannual convention
NICARAGUA – The Lutheran Church Synod of Nicaragua (ILSN) opened its Fourth Convention on January 9, 2014 at the Mission Centre chapel in Chinandega. President Marvin Donaire, who is halfway through his four-year term, chaired the sessions. The theme for the convention is “Let Us…
What Child is this?
by Peggy Pedersen At this time of year discussions arise concerning the logistics of the birth in Bethlehem. What was the actual date? Was it a stable or house? What was the nature of the heavenly sign the wise men followed? And there are many…
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