For years, the largest U.S. Lutheran denomination has avoided some of the rancor over the issue of same-sex relationships that has divided the Episcopal Church and, to a lesser extent, the ...

Bishop Jim Arends of the La Crosse Area Synod has friends grieving and others celebrating over the recent vote to allow gay clergy. The work to come is bringing those two groups together, he said. The ...

A gay San Francisco pastor, who has historically fought for gay rights in the Lutheran Church, was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography, according to the San Francisco Police ...

It was January 20, 1990 and three seminarians, Jeff Johnson, Ruth Frost, and Phyllis Zillhart, were to be ordained extra ordinem (contrary to the official church policy) in the Evangelical Lutheran ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. -- A spirited discussion is taking place on a website written by and read by members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod over how the conservative Lutheran church will respond to ...

Nov. 15 was a day of firsts for the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). ELCA Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry, installed Oct. 4 in Minneapolis, came to Christ ...

The Rev. Lucille “CeCee” Mills was elected Aug. 1 to serve a six-year term as secretary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Mills previously served as an assistant to the bishop ELCA ...