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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a unanimous and somewhat narrow opinion today, the United States Supreme Court in Hosana-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC recognized the so-called "ministerial exception" ...

Few issues divide the Supreme Court – and the country at large – more than church-state matters, and arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday involving a workplace discrimination lawsuit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parishioners at a Lutheran church in Brooklyn are shocked their pastor is in trouble for taking part in an interfaith prayer service for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Rev. David Benke has been ...

Pope Francis urged Lutherans to set aside doctrinal differences Thursday and work with Catholics to care for the poor, the sick and refugees as he laid out his vision for greater communion before his ...

Climaxing 100 years of California Lutheranism of the Missouri Synod variety, some 900 delegates and 300 board and committee members and advisers descended upon San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium for ...