January 2, 2008 Sharing with Lutherans

Anglicans and Lutherans have pledged to work more closely in many areas of mission and ministry, including addressing “matters of human need and global concerns,” and the formation for lay and ordained ministry. “We encourage the...

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November 1, 2007 New faces of leadership

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, delivered the sermon at the recent installation in Winnipeg of Susan C. Johnson as national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Archbishop Hiltz...

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July 3, 2007 Reforming church needed after close vote on same-sex blessings

“This is not a one-agenda church!” declared National Bishop Raymond Schultz in his opening remarks to the 394 delegates and 168 visitors registered for the 11th biennial National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in...

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July 3, 2007 ELCIC elects new leader

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) made history at its June national convention by electing its first woman national bishop – Rev. Susan Johnson, currently assistant bishop of the Eastern Synod. Delegates at the...

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July 3, 2007 Lutherans reject same-sex blessings

Delegates of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada’s (ELCIC) 11th biennial National Convention rejected for the second time a motion allowing the blessing of same-sex unions. The motion encouraging synods to develop...

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July 3, 2007 Water theme flows through shared Anglican/Lutheran day

Anglicans and Lutherans took a pause from their respective annual conventions to flow together for a day of worship that celebrated their six-year-old Full Communion relationship and was centered on the theme and imagery of water.

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March 1, 2007 Joint venture

The Anglican diocese of Ottawa and the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada have made a conditional offer to purchase land for a new church to be built in the next three to five years.“Unlike other...

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March 1, 2007 Two churches will unite for ‘day-long eucharist’

It might be said that the seeds of Full Communion between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) were planted when two friends, an Anglican priest and a Lutheran pastor from Winnipeg,...

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February 1, 2007 Old tunes, new words

Organizers of a hymn-writing contest have settled on the tunes; now they are looking for new words. The Joint Anglican-Lutheran Commission, which monitors and carries forward the work of the Full Communion agreement between the...

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February 1, 2007 Lutheran bishop to retire

Raymond L. Schultz, national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), has announced that he will retire as of Sept. 1, 2007 following the election of a successor at the church’s National Convention in June....

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