Linda Macqueen
Linda Macqueen is editor of The Lutheran http://www.thelutheran.com.au/thelutheran/
Stories written by Linda Macqueen
- BLACA advocates for aged and vulnerable
- News Blog
- By Linda Macqueen
- 16 May 2012
- Aged Care, BLACA
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Lutheran aged-care providers were urged to be ‘remarkable’ and ‘conspicuously extraordinary’ by the keynote speaker at the eighth Board for Lutheran Aged Care Australia (BLACA) conference held in Adelaide 3-4 May under the theme ‘Positiv... - Lutheran ePay: the LCA’s one-stop online shop
- News Blog
- By Linda Macqueen
- 16 May 2012
- Lutheran ePay, Stewardship & Resource Management
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LCA members will soon be able to make LCA-related donations, pay LCA bills, subscriptions and school fees, and make REG (Regular Electronic Giving) payments from their bank account or credit card at a one-stop online shop. Lutheran ePay, which wil... - Consensus on women’s ordination on the drawing board
- News Blog
- By Linda Macqueen
- 29 March 2012
- Doctrine & Theology, Ordination of Women
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The Dialogue Group on the Ordination of Women, established at the direction of General Convention of Synod 2009, reports that it is making steady progress. Synod resolved to establish a group with balanced representation of positions on the ordina... - 'There was no life in my life'
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- By Linda Macqueen
- 28 March 2012
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This story is a sequel to a feature story, 'Learning to fish', in the April 2012 edition of The Lutheran. About 25 kilometres from Pich Chantrea’s village, a Filipino pastor was teaching English. So the 16-year-old high-school student, ea... - LCA says no to same-sex marriage
- News Blog
- By Linda Macqueen
- 27 March 2012
- Family & Marriage, Sexuality
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The Lutheran Church of Australia has expressed its opposition to proposed legislation that would equate same-sex partnerships with the traditional understanding of marriage, namely, between a woman and a man. In submissions to the Senate Standing ... - Shepparton choir to sing at Victoria's Expo
- News Blog
- By Linda Macqueen
- 24 March 2012
- Refugees & New Arrivals
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The African choir of St Paul's Lutheran Church, Shepparton, Victoria, will be performing at Victoria's State Government Expo in April. The invitation came after the choir featured at a number of forums at the SheppARTon festival, most notably an a... - Two is better than one: Australia/Canada lay leaders confer on training
- News Blog
- By Linda Macqueen
- 24 March 2012
- Board for Lay Ministry, Lay Workers
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Almost every aspect of church life—demographics, membership, levels of commitment, even what people perceive 'church' to be—has changed dramatically within a generation or so. That's just one of the reasons why the training of lay workers need... - Hanna's call translates to 20 years far from home
- News Blog
- By Linda Macqueen
- 23 March 2012
- Bible Translation, Board for Mission, Lutheran Bible Translators Australia, Papua New Guinea
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At the commissioning service for a Bible translator, what could be more appropriate than hearing the Scriptures read in languages other than English? On Sunday, 18 March, Hanna Schulz was commissioned as a lay worker, called by the LCA’s Board ... - Pathfinders and ponderers: schools history book launched
- News Blog
- By Linda Macqueen
- 22 March 2012
- Archives, Lutheran Education Australia, Our History, Schools and Early Childhood Centres
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Great educators share many fine attributes, and one of the most important is a propensity to ponder. Indeed, pondering can be powerful, said lover of alliteration Dr Richard Hauser, at the launch of his second book about Lutheran schooling in Aust... - 'Just like Acts': amazing growth in Cambodian mission church
- News Blog
- By Linda Macqueen
- 9 March 2012
- Board for Mission, Cambodia, Overseas Mission
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'It's like stepping into Acts! It's just like you'd imagine the first-century church to be.' The LCA Board for Mission's project officer, Glenice Hartwich, just back from a visit to Cambodia, has been amazed and inspired by the growth of the two-y...


