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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Differences in ideology among Lutherans continues today. While the Protestant Reformation is remembered as a major split between Lutherans and Roman Catholics, it was the first of many divides. At ...

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 ...

A prominent Lutheran minister well known for her work at the nexus of faith and racial justice is calling on Black families to pull their children from Milwaukee Lutheran High School over its position ...