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February 29, 2012
Dear Partners,
Grace and peace to you in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
I am writing to encourage you to support the 2012 ELCIC Praise Appeal. Bishop Johnson recently sent you a communiqué about this appeal and I wanted to make it very clear to you that I am in full and complete support of the...
January 31, 2012
“The problem with us is that we’re trying to answer questions that nobody is asking!” So said my dear friend David Pfrimmer, the Principal Dean of Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, in a conversation several years ago. The converse reality was simply and sadly assumed, specifically that we weren’t...
December 01, 2011
Sometime this month, most of our churches will experience a strange but predictable transformation. Centre aisles will become dusty roads and chancels will become stables. Children will magically morph into bath-robed and towel-headed shepherds, foil-crowned magi and tinsel -winged angels. Someone...
December 01, 2011
Look deeper for a new spiritual dimension
In just a few short days the aisles of our churches will have been fully transformed into the road to Bethlehem; our chancels into stables and our altars into mangers. And we ourselves - God willing – will also have been changed – if only for a few moments...
October 12, 2011
October 6, 2011 Dear Synod family Grace and peace be unto you! I write this letter as a follow-up to my July 16, 2011 post ELCIC convention pastoral letter. In recent weeks my office has received several inquiries from pastors and congregations asking for advice on how to proceed in...
October 03, 2011
What a Ride!This has been a year of anniversaries! 150 years for the Eastern Synod, 100 years for Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, 25 years for the ELCIC and also 35 years since our church authorized the ordination of women. Thirty-five years! In some ways it seems quite a long time. But seen from the...
October 01, 2011
Remembering for the Future
In calendar year 2011 our synod will mark the 150th Anniversary of the establishment of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Canada and the 100th Anniversary of the establishment of Waterloo Lutheran Seminary! These are truly occasions for much celebration and...
September 08, 2011
September 6, 2011Dear Colleagues in Ministry:Liturgy Canada (liturgy.ca) is offering a one day conference called 'Rediscovering Liturgy' on Saturday November 5, 2011 at Renison University College in Waterloo. The hope of the day is to inspire and energize all ministers in the liturgy...
September 01, 2011
A Challenge to Canada from the Streets of Addis
In April of this year I had the privilege of visiting with partners in Ethiopia for the purpose of learning more about the relief and development work being done by Canadian Lutheran World Relief and Lutheran World Service.
Just outside the guest...
July 17, 2011
July 16, 2011 Dear Synod family Grace and peace be unto you! As I write this letter, we are just concluding the Thirteenth Biennial Convention in Saskatoon.
In the coming weeks, your delegates will provide you with their individual reports on our total convention experience. I do,...
Bishop's Blog
February 29, 2012
Dear Partners,
Grace and peace to you in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
I am writing to...
January 31, 2012
“The problem with us is that we’re trying to answer questions that nobody is asking!” So said my...
December 01, 2011
Sometime this month, most of our churches will experience a strange but predictable transformation...
December 01, 2011
Look deeper for a new spiritual dimension
In just a few short days the aisles of our churches will...
October 12, 2011
October 6, 2011 Dear Synod family Grace and peace be unto you! I write this letter...
