Our Saviour Lutheran Church

“Ecumenism at the heart of life” To mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, LWF’s Assistant General Secretary for Ecumenical Relations reflects on the way we are freed by faith to love and serve our neighbors in need

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is upon us. A week recognized and observed globally within the ecumenical Christian community.

Please join us this Thursday, January 25 from 7:00-8:00pm at South Arm United Church for the Night of Prayer for Christian Unity service.

This will be a special gathering of the Richmond community including friends from St. Anne's, Steveston Anglican Church, St Alban's Richmond BC, Our Saviour Lutheran Church, Richmond Presbyterian Church and St. Joseph the Worker Parish.

All are welcome. Carpooling is encouraged.

Lifted Image by Bianca from Pixabay Some people yearn for a glimpse of the sea…. its shimmering expanse opening up as they travel along a coastal road on a summer’s day. They taste it long before th…

So looking forward to Sunday!

This Sunday our joint Faith and Families ministry resumes with Our Saviour Lutheran Church, Gilmore Park United Church, South Arm United Church and St. Alban's Richmond
Join us to explore the Season of Creation starting at noon at St. Anne's. Bring your own lunch, but fruit will be provided.

Faith & Families Picnic this Sunday, with Gilmore Park United Church, St. Anne's, Steveston Anglican Church; South Arm United Church, St Alban's Richmond BC.

This snuck up on me. Looking forward to tomorrow!

Coming up tomorrow (Sunday) at St. Anne's, Steveston Anglican Church!

Faith and Families; a monthly program for families with children and youth from five local churches. Come as you are for this low barrier, comfortable time for you and your loved ones to hear a biblical story, practice art, meet new friends and experience the love of God. April 23 from 12:00-2:00pm.

A thoughtful, somber, and meaningful way for the community to gather.

Moms Stop the Harm member remembers victims of the overdose crisis Debbie Tablotney, a member of Moms Stop the Harm, remembered her son and thousands of others lost to the overdose crisis at a memorial marking seven years since the declaration of the public health emergency.

The casual nihilism of The Super Mario Bros. Movie - ABC Religion & Ethics As I sat with my two sons to watch the new Mario movie on opening day, I didn’t expect to see the most explicit expression of existential despair I’ve ever witnessed in a children’s film.

We look forward to Holden Evening Prayer at 7 pm on March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 at Our Saviour, together with our friends from St. Anne's, Steveston Anglican Church, Gilmore Park United Church; St Alban's, and South Arm. Also on YouTube (Our Saviour Lutheran Church Richmond BC).

"Judging by this song ‘in the style of Nick Cave’ though, it doesn’t look good, Mark. The apocalypse is well on its way. This song sucks...
Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel. Data doesn’t suffer. ChatGPT has no inner being, it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing, it has not had the audacity to reach beyond its limitations, and hence it doesn’t have the capacity for a shared transcendent experience, as it has no limitations from which to transcend. ChatGPT’s melancholy role is that it is destined to imitate and can never have an authentic human experience, no matter how devalued and inconsequential the human experience may in time become."
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/ #

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #218 - I asked Chat GPT to write a song in the style of Nick Cave and this is what it produced. What do you think? Verse 1: In the depths of the night, I hear a call A voice that echoes, through the hall... Dear Mark, Since its launch in November last year many people, most buzzing with a kind of algorithmic awe, have sent me songs ‘in the...

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