With the election last June of Rev. Susan Christine Johnson to national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), a 45-year history of women seeking ordination to the Lutheran Church was realized at the highest...
Category: December 2007, Concerning Lutherans
In his 1985 volume, God in Creation, Jurgen Moltmann wrote: “The alienation of nature brought about by human beings can never be overcome until men find a new understanding of themselves and a new interpretation of their world in...
Category: October 2007, Concerning Lutherans
“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...
Category: June/July 2007, General Synod 2007, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Concerning Lutherans
It is an impossible dilemma to imagine.James Manyiel, a Sudanese refugee living at the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)-run Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, recently described the fear that refugees have of returning home since parts...
Category: April 2007, Concerning Lutherans
Although a new year has dawned, the National Church Council (NCC) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) will revisit a seemingly perennial theme: same-sex blessings. It was to meet last month in Winnipeg to...
Category: February 2007, Concerning Lutherans
In a potpourri of summer and fall events across the country, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) continues to model a church in “Mission for Others” (the denomination’s theme).In the first of two major unifying...
Category: December 2006, Concerning Lutherans
When conviction, like certainty, is not informed by critical thought and an evaluative process, it can be more dangerous than half-truths or even lies – to paraphrase Nietzsche.In the current controversy outlined in the September...
Category: October 2006, Concerning Lutherans
An inadvertent casualty of the West’s disaproval of the new Palestinian government are the patients — some of them children — of the Lutheran-supported Augusta Victoria Hospital located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem....
Category: June 2006, Concerning Lutherans
After 28 years of singing to the Lord from the Lutheran Book of Worship and in response to the mission needs of a changing church, Canadian and American Lutherans will soon begin using a new worship book called Evangelical...
Category: April 2006, Concerning Lutherans
July 2005 marked four exciting years since the historic ratification of the Waterloo Declaration in which full communion continues to be enthusiastically advanced between our two church bodies across Canada. Currently,...
Category: January 2006, Concerning Lutherans