Nora Antonsen, a youth delegate from the Lutheran Church of Norway, and Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, smile during an ecumenical prayer service ...

I come closer to ecstasy through sex, poetry and hikes (and gingersnaps dipped in coffee) than I do reading scripture or prayer. Worship is close at times, but hit and miss depending on a wide range ...

“You mean in America, don’t you, sir?” answered the Demon for the Democracies, who was showing him around. “It’s all pretty old stuff over in Europe.” “Of course I mean America,” snapped Satan, ...

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 ...

Seven theologians call North American Lutheranism back to the Word and the Lutheran confessions. Almost everyone knows Martin Luther’s famous defense before the Diet of Worms: “Here I stand, I can do ...

A controversial decision last summer by the largest Lutheran church group in America to ordain gays and lesbians is causing churches to exit the organization nationwide, including some in Washington ...

KENOSHA, Wis. (RNS) — About 200 people — including the head of the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States — gathered Wednesday (Sept. 2) at a prayer vigil in Kenosha to confess and lament ...

St. Michael’s Church, 529 St. Michael’s Road, Hamburg, mindful of its commitment to faithful proclamation and good stewardship, discerns that it can better serve the mission given to the Church by our ...

Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church in Huntley will celebrate an October monthlong celebration honoring its Lutheran heritage with several educational and fun events. “We invite our congregation ...