Battle lines have sharpened over sexually active gay clergy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after a conservative faction decided to form a new network of churches, and the first two ...

Three congregations in the Northwestern Minnesota Synod (NWMS) passed resolutions in June to part ways with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Trefoldighed Lutheran Church of rural Battle ...

Lutheran congregations in Moorhead and Hawley, Minn., each engaged in passionate, yet polite, discussions on recent controversial decisions made regarding gays serving in the clergy. The meetings at ...

Conservatives upset over the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's recent decision to allow non-celibate gay clergy have voted to create a free-standing synod and study for a year whether to leave ...

Recently there has been much said - both verbally and nonverbally - about immigration and our current concerns in the Twin ...

Following the decision of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) to allow sexually active homosexual clergy, an objecting Lutheran group has begun to form a new church body for those ...

GROVE CITY, Ohio — Critics of the country's largest Lutheran denomination and its more open stance toward gay clergy formed a new Lutheran church Friday at a meeting of a conservative activist group.

St. John Lutheran Church, the congregation in Hatton, N.D., where native son, pioneer aviator and famed Arctic explorer Carl Ben Eielson was baptized and buried, voted Sunday to leave the nation's ...

Membership in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the country’s largest Lutheran denomination, has fallen for the 16th consecutive year, the ELCA has announced. While Lutheran churches are ...

The largest Lutheran church in North Dakota has suspended its giving to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America because of the Chicago-based denomination's recent decision to allow openly gay ...

American Lutherans became a full part of American Protestantism just in time to participate in its decline. From its high of more than 9 million members in 1965, the total number of American Lutherans ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which represents nearly 3.5 million Christians, voted Wednesday to become the country’s first “sanctuary church body,” according to church officials. The ...