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WLS announces new Centre for Worship and Global Song

Since 1985, there have been more Christians in churches of the Global South than in the more affluent countries of the Global North. We often are painfully aware of the challenges and suffering in these nations but there is a vibrancy to the worship and a dynamism to their hymnody that is a gift to the whole church. Waterloo Lutheran Seminary is pleased to announce the creation of the Centre for Worship and Global Song which may serve as a bridge across cultures and between churches to help share this gift.

On February 5th, WLS hosted a benefit concert for this new Centre. Dr. Paul Helmer, a renowned pianist and Mr. Sebastian Meadows-Helmer, a violinist and a fourth year Seminarian at WLS, performed at the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Pictured above, Inshallah sings a 'global song' thank you, accompanied by the Helmers.

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My Story

Dr. Jacobsen is Professor of Homiletics and Director of the MTh Programme in Homiletics. Dr. Jacobsen has been active as a preacher and published sermons in journals like Pulpit Digest, Preaching, Biblical Preaching Journal, and Consensus and in sermon resources like Word and Witness and Lectionary Homiletics. He has written or co-authored several books on the relation of preaching to the Bible: Preaching in the New Creation (1999), Preaching Luke-Acts (2001), and a volume in the series New Proclamation (2007). His latest book, Kairos Preaching: Speaking Gospel to the Situation, was published in August 2009 and co-authored with colleague Bob Kelly. Dr. Jacobsen is active with the Academy of Homiletics, the steering committee for the Society of Biblical Literature's Homiletics and Biblical Studies Section, and The Word in Worship seminar of the North American Academy of Liturgy. In connection with his work on the doctoral faculty in homiletics at the Toronto School of Theology, Dr. Jacobsen edited an e-journal for a graduate colloquium he founded: The TST Homiletics Seminar.

Dr. David Schnasa Jacobsen

Homiletics

Public Lecture

The next lecture in the series is:

Dr. Heather Eaton
Faith and Ecology
Professor, Saint Paul University, Ottawa
Friday March 26 10:00 AM

For more information click here.

Lenten Lunch Discussions

Join us on Mondays in Lent, beginning March 1, to continue the conversation about worship that began last year with the lectures on meaning-making. This year we will consider matters around worship and hospitality.  The format will include a 20 min prepared reflection on the topic by the presenter and then an open discussion.  Bring your lunch; we’ll provide coffee.

A complete listing of dates and topics can be found by clicking here or you can listen to past discussion by clicking here.

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Waterloo Lutheran Seminary is a graduate school operated by the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, is a Federated College of Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada and is an accredited member of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies.

Waterloo Lutheran Seminary provides for the scholarly study of the Christian faith in an interdenominational setting.