Curry's forerunners as African American Lutheran leaders include the Rev. Nelson Wesley Trout, the first Black ELCA synod ...

The head of one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States sees evidence of life in the church in the hundreds of people around her at a three-day gathering ending today in Greenville ...

Bishop Yehiel Curry looked out at the hundreds of leaders and parishioners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who ...

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 ...

Erie has had gay pastors, whether or not their sexual orientation was openly acknowledged. So when the Rev. Jay Mitchell leads worship this Sunday at Luther Memorial Church, he won't be the first. But ...

An Atlanta pastor once ousted from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for being in an openly gay relationship will now lead the biggest Lutheran church in St. Paul. Gloria Dei Lutheran ...

CLEAR LAKE — Members of Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake will vote today whether the church should break ties with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) because of its stand on gay ...

The executive director of Mashiah Foundation, Pastor Bayo Oyebade, while speaking during the presentation, said the outreach ...

There's a feud brewing on the prairie between faith and farming. Another church has voted to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but this time it's over a new stance the denomination's ...

Hawley Lutheran Church will split from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after members voted overwhelmingly Sunday to leave the denomination. The vote was the culmination of a yearlong debate ...

A Lutheran congregation in Minneapolis said Wednesday that it voted to leave the denomination because the church’s governing body had voted to let gay men and lesbians serve as pastors. Sunday’s vote ...

(RNS) — That’s been the focus of Rohrer’s ministry, first as the executive director of a nonprofit serving the homeless and hungry in San Francisco and now as bishop-elect of the Sierra Pacific Synod ...