I realize I am posting the same piece twice (here and in ‘sermons’. However, in case you didn’t hear/read the homily, you can find it here. Obviously, I think it’s important. š The attack on the Muslim family in London, ON is too much for me. And I am not even Muslim. I cannot […]
I am signatory to an open letter in support of Chief Provincial Health Officer Dr Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix. The letter was written as a response to the fact that a few churches who are either non-compliant with provincial health orders or in vocal opposition to them appear to have drawn much […]
February 6: Pancakes for Peace I was one of a number of local faith representatives to give a brief address. My notes are below: Thank you for the invitation. It is good to be with you. Lutherans are a Christian denomination that came about approximately 500 years ago during an era we call the Reformation. […]
It is good to be with you all. Thank you for the invitation.1 I want to remind you a story form a few years ago. 10th Ave Alliance Church in Vancouver decided to renovate the front of their building. Because work was being done on the front of the building, neighbours who came to the […]
A few years ago I read in an editorial by an editorial cartoonist the line that āOsama bin Laden had done for American introspection what Hitler had done for the square moustache.ā The writer of the sentence is American, so he is allowed to make such a statement whereas I cannot and would not. However, […]
We are part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). My Evangelical friends tend to assume that āEvangelicalā in the name of our church means the same as what is described as āEvangelicalā in Evangelical Churches or in Evangelicalism. It does not. The āEvangelicalā in Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada simply means āPertaining to […]