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...

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...

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...

  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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

'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...