Defying their denomination’s rule against active homosexuals in ordained ministry, three Lutheran congregations have appointed two gay men and a lesbian to serve as pastors in Hollywood, San ...

Pastors from Independent Lutheran churches and Presiding Bishop Robbie Osmundson of Klamath Falls Oregon gathered for a pastoral conference of the Independent Lutheran Diocese in Paoli earlier this ...

The biennium between the 1967 and 1969 conventions of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod can be regarded as a twofold anniversary—tenth and fiftieth—of the synod’s involvement in the quest for ...

Bud Veis and Paul Johnson are lifelong Lutherans who wouldn’t dream of leaving their faith. Veis, 63, and Johnson, 72, grew up in the church, married their wives and raised their children there. Both ...

As an ELCA pastor, I took umbrage at the front-page article of Jan. 17, "Can Lutherans mend gay clergy rift?" Please understand that the issue is not homosexuality or gay rights but is solely that the ...

Climaxing 100 years of California Lutheranism of the Missouri Synod variety, some 900 delegates and 300 board and committee members and advisers descended upon San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium for ...

A top Lutheran leader has hailed a decision by the world’s Methodist churches to sign on to an agreement that brought Catholics and Lutherans closer together on a key issue that rent them apart at the ...

Leaders of the World Communion of Reformed Churches sign copies of the declaration in the Saint Mary’s City Church in Wittenberg, Germany, expressing support from Reformed churches for the ...

In a unanimous and somewhat narrow opinion today, the United States Supreme Court in Hosana-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC recognized the so-called "ministerial exception" ...

The Houston native who led the second-largest Lutheran denomination in the country for nearly a decade was defeated in his reelection bid at the church's triennial convention this week in downtown ...

Judged from the scene as the board met, it might have been a good-fellowship meeting. In the recreation basement of Milwaukee’s Pentecost Lutheran Church last week, seven men sat around a quadrangle ...