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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS) — Watching backstage as more than 800 Lutherans sang hymns on the floor of the Greater Columbus Convention Center, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton mused, “We haven’t been singing ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has become the first North American denomination to declare itself a sanctuary church, committed to supporting and sheltering migrants entering ...

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 ...

In what promises to be a controversial move unprecedented in the history of Lutheranism in the United States, a national task force of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recommends that the ...

With the bang of a gavel and a moment to honor the Native Americans who first called Milwaukee home, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton opened the ELCA Churchwide Assembly. The primary decision-making ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The nation's largest Lutheran denomination took openly gay clergy more fully into its fold Friday, as leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to lift a ban that ...

MILWAUKEE (RNS) — The ELCA Churchwide Assembly kicked off a year of celebrations: 50 years of women's ordination, 40 years of women of color being ordained and 10 years of LGBTQ people serving freely ...

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 ...

As an observer to what is currently taking place in the local ELCA Lutheran churches regarding whether or not to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America because of its new statement regarding ...