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by LCA Communications

The director of Lutheran World Federation’s Department for World Service, Maria Immonen, will be visiting Australia next month. Along with Australian Lutheran World Service board meetings and meeting with representatives of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ms Immonen will give two public speeches in South Australia during her week-long visit. On Sunday… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Bishop Philip Huggins from the Anglican Church of Australia is the new president of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA). Bishop Huggins, who has chaired the Anglican General Synod Ecumenical Relations Committee and has represented his church in a variety of roles on the NCCA, succeeds former LCA president Rev Dr Mike Semmler… Read more

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by Eleanor Long

The public lecture ‘Luther’s work is full of promise … [providing] an orientation for us today. But the promise of his work has not yet reached its fulfilment. Either we have not realised it, or we have lost it and need to recover it. In this sense, Luther is still ahead’. These are the words… Read more

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by LCA Communications

The next assignment booked for the giant Unity (or Christ) Candle is at Light Pass-Strait Gate Parish in South Australia’s Barossa Valley. Eleven congregations have been invited to participate in a special service with a theme of unity. Late last month the Unity Candle visited Naracoorte in South Australia’s South-East for an SA/NT Zone Family… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Former Lutheran Education Queensland executive director Dr Roger Hunter has received an Order of Australia award in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for service to education, and to professional organisations. Roger, from Indooroopilly Queensland, also was a board member of Australian Lutheran College from 1990 to 2010. He headed up Lutheran education in Queensland… Read more

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by LCA Communications

The LCA’s Commission on Theology and Inter-Church Relations (CTICR) has started work on a draft doctrinal statement for the ordination of women and men in the church. This is in response to synod’s instruction to the commission at General Convention in Queensland last October. While 64 per cent of delegates to the 18th General Convention… Read more

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by ELCA Communications

A press release from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in response to the Orlando shooting CHICAGO (ELCA) – The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has issued a letter in response to the June 12 shooting that claimed the lives of 49 people at a nightclub… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Budding Lutheran songwriters in South Australia now have a new outlet for their creativity – the New Song Café. The project, which had its opening night at Adelaide’s Halifax Café last month, is designed to foster the development of Christian songwriters. Six people performed mostly original songs before a crowd of about 35 at the… Read more

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by LCA Communications

Cycling star Kieran Modra has been named in the Australian team to compete at his eighth Paralympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, later this year. A member at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Hallett Cove, in suburban Adelaide, Kieran will be the most experienced member of Australia’s 16-strong cycling team. The vision-impaired athlete has represented… Read more

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by LCA Communications

The giant Unity (or Christ) Candle has started this month at Caloundra, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, for that state’s meeting of District Synod on 3–5 June. The candle, which also recently attended the SA/NT District Convention in the South Australian Riverland and the Lutheran Women of SA/NT’s 50th anniversary at St Petri Nuriootpa in the… Read more

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