ST. LOUIS -- The president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod won a second term Sunday after he called on church members to put behind them a disagreement over a prayer offered at New York's Yankee ...
FARGO -- The Rev. Bill Rindy, a native of Mayville, N.D., and former high school math teacher, was elected the new bishop of the 100,000-strong Eastern North Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran ...
SAN FRANCISCO — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer will ...
After 45 years of ministry and 16 years as a bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Rev. Floyd Schoenhals retired Monday. Schoenhals, 70, has overseen the 56 ELCA congregations in ...
Reverend Tim Smith gives a speech during the 100th anniversary of the North Carolina Lutheran Men in Mission Saturday at the Grace Lutheran Church in Salisbury. Smith was the keynote speaker and a ...
A local vicar is expected to become the first Burmese pastor ordained by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a news release said Thursday. In July, Vicar Soe Moe will become the pastor of youth and ...
ST. LOUIS — The president of a conservative Lutheran denomination has apologized for reprimanding a Newtown, Conn., pastor who participated in an interfaith prayer vigil in apparent violation of the ...
MINNEAPOLIS -- The nation's largest Lutheran denomination became the nation's largest church to allow officially gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships to be ministers. Friday, the national ...