Address at KPU’s 4th-Annual UN World Interfaith Harmony Week

February 8, 2018 by Christoph

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. […]

Following Jesus, Christian Unity, and Inter-Faith

January 15, 2018 by Christoph

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 […]

Introspection

June 14, 2017 by Christoph

A few years ago I read in an editorial by an editorial cartoonist the line that ‘Osama bin Laden had done for American introspection what Hitler had done for the square moustache.’ The writer of the sentence is American, so he is allowed to make such a statement whereas I cannot and would not. However, […]

What is the meaning of “Evangelical”?

February 22, 2017 by Christoph

We are part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). My Evangelical friends tend to assume that “Evangelical” in the name of our church means the same as what is described as “Evangelical” in Evangelical Churches or in Evangelicalism. It does not. The “Evangelical” in Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada simply means “Pertaining to […]