A new contextual Bible study is set to bring the message of the scriptures to Anglicans and Lutherans in a relevant, accessible way this Lenten season.

Endorsed by members of the Joint Anglican-Lutheran Commission (JALC), the shared resource is available free online and represents another initiative in the full communion partnership between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) and the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC).

The Rt. Rev. Terry Dance, Bishop of Norfolk in the ACC Diocese of Huron and a member of JALC, prepared the study for Lent during a sabbatical to help church members engage with each other and the biblical text while providing guidance to ministry in their own lives.

“This study is designed specifically for a church in the Canadian context, dealing with the kind of issues that we’re dealing with,” Bishop Dance said.

“There’s a phrase, diakonia, which talks about the fact that discipleship is inextricably bound to service, and that service is something which belongs to the whole people of God, not just those of us who are ordained.”

Dance is a long-time proponent of contextual Bible study, an approach to studying scripture that examines biblical passages from multiple aspects—literary, historic, and ultimately the modern cultural context participants live in.

The bishop spent an estimated 200 hours writing the study, which addresses scriptural readings for Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter and connects experiences in the life of Christ to the mission and ministry of the church today.

While questions asked in the study are the same across Canada, responses are likely to vary.

“In suburban London, Ont., the opportunities and possibilities for ministry would be different than they would be in, say, northern British Columbia or Vancouver,” Dance said.

“The needs that exist in the local community would be different…It gets people, I think, talking at a fairly serious level about who we are as a church, what it means to be a church, what it means to be a follower of Christ, and begins to deepen the level of conversation.”

To help the Bible study reach the widest possible audience, Bishop John Chapman of the Diocese of Ottawa examined the first draft and offered suggestions to make the final product useful for laypersons and theological experts alike.

“If you’re doing a theological work that is to serve the whole church, then it needs to be accessible to the whole church,” Chapman noted.

Meanwhile, Dean Peter Wall, Anglican member and co-chair of JALC, looked over the final draft to ensure the study would prove an ideal resource for both Anglicans and Lutherans.

“This is an impressive piece of work—carefully and comprehensively looking at the Sunday readings for Lent in this [church] Year B,” Wall wrote in an email.

“It provides good and easily used resources for a facilitator and also gives excellent ‘extra’ background reading material for those who wish to use it. I believe that it would deeply enrich one’s journey through the Sundays in Lent.”

Both the ELCIC and ACC will promote the Bible study online. An overview and resources for the first, second and third weeks of Lent are now available. Resources for the fourth and fifth weeks of Lent as well as Palm Sunday, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection will be available at the end of January or sooner.

The Rev. André Lavergne, a member of JALC and assistant to the bishop, ecumenical and interfaith for the ELCIC, praised the study for its “grassroots quality.”

“It follows the lectionary, and that’s a lectionary that is shared between Anglicans and Lutherans…It’s very accessible, whether you’re an Anglican or a Lutheran,” Lavergne said.

“We’re going to be reading the same texts during Lent and therefore studying the same material, so that’s very helpful.”

Click here to download the Lenten Bible study: https://www.elcic.ca/ecumenical/2015LentStudy.cfm

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The Rev. Cindy Halmarson, former bishop of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) Saskatchewan Synod, has accepted a position in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Global Mission Unit. Her new position as Area Program Director for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (Europe/MENA), based at the Lutheran Center in Chicago, will involve building and maintaining relationships with partner churches in order to strengthen Christ’s mission in the world. Mission accompaniment is focused on churches in Central Eastern Europe, including Siberia, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) as well as supporting ELCA-sponsored English language ministries in the typically Lutheran areas of Scandinavia, Germany and Western Europe.

ELCIC National Bishop Susan Johnson offered her congratulations to Halmarson. "I am delighted Bishop Cindy will be working for ELCA Global Mission," she said noting that the skills Halmarson brings to this new role will strengthen both the existing partnership the two churches maintain in the area of global mission and the relationship with the ELCA. "It’s another example of the way we are working out one of our strategic goals – Effective Partnership," said Johnson.

Speaking about this new opportunity for service, Halmarson said, “It’s exciting to think how my rich experience in the Canadian church, particularly as bishop of Saskatchewan Synod, can translate to the global call to make Christ known in partnership with churches doing the faithful mission work of peace-making, refugee settlement and leadership development.”

Halmarson and her husband Rev. Jim Halmarson, presently serving as parish priest at Christ Church Anglican in Saskatoon, will relocate to Chicago in March 2015. Halmarson will start her term on February 9, 2015.

(With files from ELCA.)

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The annual Christmas greeting by leaders of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) has become a holiday tradition symbolizing the full communion partnership the two churches have enjoyed since 2001.

In their 2014 Christmas video message, Bishop Susan Johnson, National Bishop of the ELCIC, and Fred Hiltz, Primate of the ACC, reflect on a year marked by turmoil and violence around the world – one that makes the message of the Prince of Peace more relevant than ever.

Amidst widespread human suffering in areas from Nigeria to Iraq and from Gaza to Ukraine, Hiltz offers the hopeful message of the Christmas story, quoting Isaiah 9:6: “A child is born, to us a son is given, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

Evoking the spirit of the season, Johnson expresses hope that the coming year may see “peace in our hearts, peace in our homes, peace in our communities, and peace in the very many places around the world that are in so desperate need of the message” of Jesus Christ.

Through their full communion partnership, the ACC and ELCIC retain each church’s independence while maintaining a deeper bond through joint worship, co-operative ministries and the exchange of liturgies and clergy.

View the 2014 Christmas message here: http://youtu.be/EDCt-I7sMxI
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Leaders from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada have written to the two churches, calling on church members to publically recite the promise to “never commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women”.

The text from the letter follows. A pdf version of the letter can be found here.

November 25th marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It is followed by the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence which ends on 10 December, United Nations Human Rights Day.  Statistics continue to reveal the awful truth that no country rich or poor, dictatorship or democracy has come close to eradicating gender based violence.  It is a global issue.

This year the world has witnessed horrific atrocities in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Gaza and Sudan.  It is well documented that the majority of innocent victims of war are women and children.  By far the greatest number of human beings trafficked for the sex trade are women and girls.

The Lutheran World Federation has launched the theme for the 500th anniversary commemorating the Lutheran Reformation in 1517 – “Liberated by God’s Grace”.  Three subthemes for the commemoration focus on Salvation – not for sale, Creation – not for sale and Human Beings – not for sale.  The Lutheran churches invite all churches to participate in this resolve in addressing human trafficking.  

The Anglican Communion Office has recently launched an initiative “Anglicans Ending Gender Based Violence”.  It urges the churches “to not remain silent about this tragedy but to speak up and take action in addressing it”.  It calls us “to provide safe space for victims of violence”, and “to promote and model safe, equal, respectful relationships between men, women, girls and boys”.  It calls the churches “to teach young men and women to honour themselves and each other as human beings cherished equally by God.”

As Canadians, many of us were horrified by the November 7th beating of Rinelle Harper, a 16 year old Grade 11 student in Winnipeg.  Viciously beaten and thrown into the Assiniboine River, she managed to crawl out of the river upstream, only to be beaten again and left unconscious.  Thankfully she was found, hospitalized and is recovering.  She came so very close to being numbered among the more than 1000 missing or murdered aboriginal women in Canada, but she survived.

Her beating is a stark reminder of the brutality suffered by so many aboriginal women and girls.  According to the Federal Government Report “Invisible Women: A Call to Action” (March 2014), aboriginal women and girls are two times more likely to be victims of domestic abuse and three times more likely to be the target of a violent attack.  The report calls for action through all levels of government in increasing police and emergency measures services, and in increasing the number of shelters, safe houses, and second stage housing for those escaping violence.  It also addresses the need in Canadian society at large to break the silence about gender based violence.

Throughout the “16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence” initiative, thousands of people will gather in vigil in public squares, at town halls, Band Council offices and provincial legislatures.  We will light candles in memory of all victims of gender based violence.  We will pray for all who remain imprisoned in its vicious cycles, for all making an escape, and for all who counsel and empower them in reclaiming their dignity and their life itself.  We will be invited to make the promise associated with these sixteen days, “I will never commit, condone or remain silent about violence again women”.  A group of Canadian men wrote this promise in response to the horrific murder of fourteen young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989.  Now it is made in more than sixty countries around the world.

While the promise is particularly for men to make, it is in truth a promise all of us can and ought to make as people of faith – for in every respect it reflects our baptismal vow “to respect the dignity of every human being”.

Accordingly we call the Church, on one of the Sundays within the sixteen days to a public reciting of this promise, “I will never commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women”.

Fred J. Hiltz
Archbishop and Primate
The Anglican Church of Canada

Mark MacDonald
National Indigenous Anglican Bishop
The Anglican Church of Canada

Susan C. Johnson
National Bishop
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

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On November 22, Lutherans and Anglicans are called to lift up National Housing Day 2014, learn more about the issues contributing to poverty, homelessness and substandard housing, and advocate for changes.

Inadequate housing and homelessness impacts a growing number of Canadians. An estimated 400,000 people are without access to a healthy place to live. These numbers continue to increase despite economic growth and prosperity here in our country.

“Our churches have a faithful record of working with and for people who are homeless or who struggle to find affordable housing,” says Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) National Bishop Susan C. Johnson. “But still home ownership and even affordable rental options are out of reach for many. We are called to support the agencies and programs that address these issues, as well as explore and advocate for new approaches to address poverty and homelessness.”

At the 2013 Joint Assembly, the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) and the ELCIC unanimously endorsed a shared commitment to learning, action, advocacy and prayer concerning homelessness and affordable housing.

“Every day and night thousands of children, women and men are fed and housed by the churches in partnership with social agencies. This is holy work,” says Anglican Archbishop Fred Hiltz. “We press on with the call for a comprehensive national housing strategy reflecting the 2012 commitment of all members of Parliament ‘to respect, protect, and fulfill the right to adequate housing’ for all people living in Canada.”

Several resources have been prepared by the ELCIC and ACC to assist churches and their members in lifting up National Housing Day on November 22. They include:

• Homelessness and Affordable Housing: A Backgrounder
• A Prayer for those who are homeless and precariously housed

If you are in the Toronto area, consider participating in the Come & See Pilgrimage where you can visit local churches committed to working alongside those who experience inadequate housing.

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Seeds, song, patience, justice—these are some of the images invoked in a series of Advent reflections offered by the leaders of the four Lutheran and Anglican churches in full communion in Canada and the United States: National Bishop Susan Johnson (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada), Archbishop Fred Hiltz (Anglican Church of Canada),

Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (Episcopal Church).

These Advent reflections represent a modest but visible sign of what our churches can do together rather than separately. Through them our prayers will be united across international and denominational boundaries. They are offered in the same spirit as a series of Epiphany devotions produced for 2013 by members of the Joint Anglican-Lutheran Commission in Canada and the Lutheran-Episcopal Coordinating Committee in the United States.

Congregations are invited to download and reproduce these reflections for use as bulletin inserts during each of the four Sundays of Advent, or to otherwise make them available to their members.

Download all four weeks as one document:

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You can also learn more about our full communion agreement here.

In a letter issued today, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) National Bishop Susan C. Johnson encourages individuals and congregations to join with others throughout the Lutheran communion and pray for churches and communities affected by the Ebola crisis in Central and West Africa on Sunday, September 28.

The text of Bishop Johnson’s letter follows. A pdf version of the letter can be viewed here: https://www.elcic.ca/Documents/20140925PastoralletterEbola.pdf

September 26, 2014

Dear friends in Christ,

This Sunday, September 28, churches throughout the Lutheran communion are invited to join in prayers of solidarity for churches and communities affected by the Ebola crisis in Central and West Africa. I encourage you, individually and within your congregation, to hold in prayer our sister churches in this region this coming Sunday, and as you are able.

According to the World Health Organizations, over 2,900 deaths from the Ebola virus disease have been confirmed in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Lutheran World Federation General Secretary Rev. Martin Junge, speaking about the request for a day of solidarity in prayer says, “As we explore collaborative ways of supporting our brothers and sisters in these countries, let us continue to uphold them in our prayers. When one part of the communion is sick, mourning, suffering and distressed, this pain is shared by the entire communion.”

Bishops from Lutheran churches in the affection regions have expressed their appreciation for the global call for prayers. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sierra Leone Bishop Thomas J. Barnett says, “We give thanks to God for sparing mercies and for the knowledge that there are others out there who continue to be with us in prayers.”

I invite you to please join me in praying this Sunday, September 28 for churches and communities affected by the Ebola crisis in Central and West Africa, with this or another petition:

Loving God, we lift up before you all the people, churches and communities affected by the Ebola crisis in Central and West Africa. Grant comfort and healing to all who suffer and all who mourn. We give you thanks for those who are providing care for those in need. Amen.

 

I also invite you to make donations to Canadian Lutheran World Relief who is working with partners, including the Christian Health Association of Liberia, to mitigate against and prevent further Ebola infections while encouraging the highest standard of health care for the people of Liberia. You can make donations at http://clwr.donorshops.com/product/0A12F05/ebolaoutbreakresponse.php

 

Yours in Christ,

The Rev. Susan C. Johnson
National Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

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A statement from the heads of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, The Anglican Church of Canada, and The Episcopal Church, on Friday, September 19,  2014. To find this document in PDF format, click here.

We are united as Christian leaders in our concern for the well-being of our neighbors and God’s good creation that provides life and livelihood for all God’s creatures. Daily we see and hear the evidence of a rapidly changing climate. Glaciers are disappearing , the polar ice cap is melting, and sea levels are rising. incidents of pollution- created dead zones in seas and the ocean and toxic algae growth in water supplies are occurring with greater frequency. Most disturbingly, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising at an unprecedented rate. At the same time we also witness in too many instances how the earth’s natural beauty, a sign of God’s wonderful creativity, has been defiled by pollution and waste.

Many have reacted to these changes with grief and anger. In their outrage some have understandably focused on the neglect and carelessness, both in private industry and in government regulation, that have contributed to these changes. However, an honest accounting requires a recognition that we all participate both as consumers and investors in economies that make intensive and insistent demands for energy. In addition, as citizens we have chosen to support or acquiesce in policies that shift the burdens of climate change to communities that are most vulnerable to its effects. People who are already challenged by poverty and by dislocation resulting from civil war or famine have limited resources for adapting to climate change’s effects.

While an accounting of climate change that has credibility and integrity must include our own repentance, we find our hope in the promise of God’s own faithfulness to the creation and humankind and in the liberation that comes from God’s promise.

God, who made the creation and made it good, has not abandoned it. Daily the Spirit continues to renew the face of the earth. All who care for the earth and work for the restoration of its vitality can be confident that they are not pursuing a lost cause. We serve in concert with God’s own creative and renewing power.

Moreover, we need not surrender to political ideologies and other modern mythologies that would divide us into partisan factions – deserving and undeserving, powerless victims and godless oppressors. In Christ we have the promise of a life where God has reconciled the human community. In Christ God sets us free from the captivity of blaming and shaming. God liberates us for shared endeavors where we find each other at our best.

While the challenge may seem daunting, the Spirit ‘s abundant gifts for service empower us to find common cause with people who exercise countless insights and skills, embodied in hundreds of occupations and trades. We have good reason to hope in all the ways God’s grace is at work among us. We can commend ourselves to the work before us with confidence in God’s mercy.

Opportunities to act imaginatively and courageously abound in all our individual callings. The Holy Spirit’s work in us leads us as faithful consumers and investors in a global economy to make responsible choices to reduce energy use, carbon emissions, and the wasteful consumption of water and other natural resources. As citizens, we have voices to use in educating children about the climate and in shaping public and corporate policies that affect the environment. The Spirit has also given us our voices to contribute our witness to public discussions of just and responsible use of natural resources.

We also have the resources and responsibility to act together for the common good, especially for those most vulnerable to the effect of climate change in the spirit of the seventh Millennium Development Goal, “to ensure environmental stability”. World leaders will meet this month in New York for a Climate Summit, and in December in Lima, Peru, to discuss global cooperation on climate change. Working under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), participants in the UNFCCC’s negotiations hope for an agreement in 2015 that will move toward reduction of carbon emissions, development of low carbon technologies, and assistance to populations most vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate.

We encourage you to take the initiative to engage decision-makers in this godly work in all areas of public life – in government and business, in schools and civic organizations, in social media and also in our church life. We are not powerless to act and we are not alone. “We have the power of the Holy Spirit and the indwelling Spirit of Christ to give us hope and courage.”

The present moment is a critical one, filled with both challenges and opportunity to act as faithful individuals and churches in solidarity with God’s good creation.

Bishop Elizabeth Eaton
Presiding Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church

The Most Rev. Fred Hiltz
Primate, Anglican Church of Canada

Bishop Susan Johnson
National Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

In a letter to the church sent out today, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) National Bishop Susan C. Johnson encourages ELCIC members and congregations to, “consider making time between now and October 1 for an intentional time of prayer, reflection and action for climate justice.”

Several resources for individual and congregational use are included in the letter to the church.

The text of Bishop Johnson’s letter follows. View a pdf version here: https://www.elcic.ca/Documents/201409ClimateAction.pdf

September 11, 2014

Dear friends in Christ,

Grace to you and peace in the name of Christ our Saviour!

I am writing today to invite you and your congregation to consider making time between now and October 1 for an intentional time of prayer, reflection and action for climate justice.

As I travel across our church and visit with our partners, I am aware of how many people share a concern for climate justice. Most recently, at the June 2014 Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council meeting member churches were challenged to increase awareness of climate justice issues.

On the first day of each month, I – along with many people in our church and globally – participate in a fast (#fastfortheclimate) and pray for climate justice and for the people most affected by climate change. This regular discipline keeps climate justice issues close to my heart and mind.

Government leaders from across the globe will be meeting in New York City for a one-day United Nations climate summit on September 23. There is a growing movement to encourage the work of these leaders, both with prayers and with a massive, united call for climate justice and a strong climate treaty. This includes a Global Day of Action on September 20-21.

Through our ecumenical partners, there are a variety of ways for you to engage these matters:

• Consider participating in the People’s Climate March (peoplesclimate.org/global) on September 21 as a way of expressing a united call for climate justice. KAIROS has several suggestions for engagement (kairoscanada.org/sustainability/climate-justice/peoplesclimatemarch/).
• On Sunday, September 21 – consider what could take place at your congregation through worship, prayer and reflection. Citizens for Public Justice (cpj.ca), in collaboration with the Canadian Council of Churches, have created resources for faith communities (cpj.ca/climate) specifically related to the UN Summit.
• Join me in prayer on the first of every month through the #fastfortheclimate campaign. Visit the Canadian website for climate fast (climatefast.ca).
• Share your good practices for becoming sustainable and eco-friendly, on the LWF Climate Justice Facebook page (facebook.com/LWFforclimatejustice?ref=br_rs).

Climate change is an issue that involves us all. I encourage you to consider ways to get involved both individually and with your congregation in prayer, reflection and action for climate justice.

Yours in Christ,

The Rev. Susan C. Johnson
National Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

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Have you heard of the #icebucketchallenge? View ELCIC National Bishop Susan Johnson’s #icebucketchallenge video.