The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop on Saturday, ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 2009 Churchwide Assembly was a landmark gathering. After years of debate, voting members at last August's assembly opened the door for non-celibate gays to ...

Bishop Yehiel Curry looked out at the hundreds of leaders and parishioners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who gathered Saturday in Minneapolis to celebrate his installation as the ...

West Prairie Lutheran Church was at a crossroads, says David Strand, a lifelong member. Attendance was dropping at the rural Kindred, N.D., church, averaging 30 people. Finances were dour. And members ...

In April we attended an ELCA South East Synod meeting in Owatonna, on what was called a hearing on the "Third Sexuality Study" the ELCA is conducting. They have studied this civil issue since 2001 at ...

La Crosse area Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastors and congregational leaders concerned about the direction they perceive the ELCA is taking in some of its policies and practices will have ...

When the ELCA approved ordaining gays into the ministry last August, nearly two-thirds of the congregation at Seward's Faith Lutheran Church decided it was time to go. For nearly a year the ...

A Lutheran pastor with expertise in disaster response will be the preacher for a joint Reformation Day service for the five ...

I got a letter this week from Pastor Don Marshall, Saint Andrew Lutheran Church in Sand Springs, taking issue with a Pew Research Center study that included the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ...

The executive director of Mashiah Foundation, Pastor Bayo Oyebade, while speaking during the presentation, said the outreach ...