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Together with our sister seminary in Edmonton, we encourage you to consider offering a summer vicarage opportunity to a first-year seminary student. Please contact President Thomas Winger (twinger@brocku.ca) if you would like information on available students. It may be possible to procure government funding for the student's salary. The Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) programme helps … Continue reading Summer Vicarages with Government Assistance

Each May at the annual Call Service Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary has the opportunity to confer two major awards on worthy pastors or lay members of Lutheran Church–Canada. The recipient of the "Friend of the Seminary" award is nominated by the faculty or Board of Regents for making a significant contribution to the well-being of … Continue reading Call for Award Nominations

The latest news from Concordia has been sent out to all congregations in Lutheran Church–Canada in our Advent Newsletter. You can read it online here. Please remember to support our mission as you consider your Christmas giving.

Feed: Canadian Lutheran Online Posted on: Tuesday, 06 December 2016 3.17pm CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is re-launching the RSVP initiative, a church worker recruitment program that successfully identified a number of prospective pastors and deacons throughout the 1990s and 2000s, with hopes that LCC congregations will observe a Recruitment Sunday on January 22, 2017. … Continue reading RSVP Revisited: Recruiting church workers for a new generation

The following sermon was preached by Dr Wilhelm Torgerson in the seminary’s Martin Luther Chapel for the divine service on the Commemoration of St. Andrew the First-Called. The text is St. John 1:35-42. (Just a few remarks at the outset: St. Andrew is considered to have done mission work in south Russia, where the Christians … Continue reading Sermon: St Andrew’s Day

Rev. Dr Harold Ristau has announced today that he has decided to accept the call to serve as Assistant Professor of Theology at CLTS. He will officially take up the new post in August 2017. Plans for his installation have not yet been determined. Rev. Harold Ristau, PhD, is a native of Kitchener, Ontario. He … Continue reading Rev. Dr Harold Ristau Accepts Faculty Call

At the reception following this year's Advent Lessons and Carols service we will recognise Founding Professor Roger Humann's 80th birthday (18 May) and Emeritus Professor Jon Grothe's 75th birthday (30 Nov.). Please join us as we host these special guests. In their honour, consider making a donation to the Humann Family Fund or the Grothe … Continue reading Honouring Humann and Grothe at Advent Lessons and Carols 2016

Rev. Esko Murto announced to the seminary community today that he has decided to accept the call to serve as Assistant Professor of Theology at CLTS. Since he is already serving as a visiting professor, the transition will be smooth. He will officially take up the new post on 1 July 2017. Plans for his … Continue reading Rev. Esko Murto Accepts Faculty Call

The newly-published book, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800, has arrived in Concordia Seminary's Martin Chemnitz library. It includes a contribution authored by our own Professor of Historical Theology, Dr John R. Stephenson. Dr Stephenson’s article, “Sacraments in Lutheranism, 1600–1800”, is also featured in the electronic version, Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews. … Continue reading Concordia Seminary Professor Featured in Prestigious Oxford Handbooks