CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)’s two seminaries are both in the final stretch of the Winter Semester, with finals approaching towards the end of April and into early May.

Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) in Edmonton and Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario are sharing the May term class, “Theology of Mission and Evangelism,” being taught online by CLTS Professor Harold Ristau.

The seminaries have been working recently to coordinate their academic calendars for next year, aligning start, break, and end dates to allow some course sharing for each of the schools.

In addition to the physical calendars, each of the seminaries have also mapped out the specific courses being taught next year and the faculty members assigned to teach them. Current proposals are exploring six shared courses for next year.

Each of the seminaries is located close to a university. CLTS is located on the campus of Brock University; Brock officials are reviewing the curriculum and programmes under the umbrella of the embedded school model. CLS is across the street from Concordia University Edmonton, which has recently announced the termination of all shared library, educational software, and groundskeeping services to CLS. CLS is therefore exploring alternative sharing options.