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FaithLife Lecture to address Opera and the Christian faith
EDMONTON – The Canadian Centre for Scholarship and the Christian Faith (CCSCF), with the sponsorship of FaithLife Financial, will hold its annual FaithLife Lecture at Concordia University College of Alberta (CUCA) on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Tegler Centre. The lecture…
Roman Catholic Church and International Lutheran Council to begin dialogue
by Mathew Block VATICAN CITY – The International Lutheran Council (ILC) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) have announced they will begin holding informal international dialogues. The announcement came at the end of November meetings in Rome between the ILC and the…
Call for prayer following tornadoes, storms in American Midwest
USA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is calling on its members to hold its American partner church in prayer following tornadoes and major storms this past weekend in the American Midwest. The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) reports that two of its churches were severely damaged during…
Summer outreach in Ukraine
UKRAINE – This past summer was a busy one for Lutheran outreach to youth in Ukraine. Rev. Alexey Navrotskyy, Lutheran Church–Canada’s Missionary in Ukraine, reports the operation of several Vacation Bible School (VBS) camps for children during June, July, and August. The leadership team consisted…
Ender’s Game
by Ted Giese Set in the future, Ender’s Game is a film about a young boy—Andrew “Ender” Wiggin—who is taken from his family to be trained for a war against an alien species. Earth had been invaded twice before by the aliens and barely repelled…
25 years for The CREW
by James Morgan It’s a crystal-clear contemporary Christian sound. That was the first thing that entered my mind when listening to The CREW for the first time. This quartet of LCC Lutherans from western Canada is celebrating 25 years of making music that not only…