Based on a series of straw votes Saturday, delegates to the annual assembly of the Eastern North Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are open to changing church policy and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay area and were barred from serving in America’s largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are ...

If this summer’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in America convention follows the advice of a sexuality task force to selectively permit ordination of homosexual pastors without fear of church discipline ...

GROVE CITY, Ohio - Critics of the country's largest Lutheran denomination and its more open stance toward gay clergy formed a new Lutheran church Friday at a meeting of a conservative activist group.

FARGO -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 2009 Churchwide Assembly was a landmark gathering. After years of debate, voting members at last August's assembly opened the door for noncelibate ...

DANNEBROG — There were some Lutherans in Central Nebraska that just couldn't agree with a decision made by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to accept pastors who are in same-sex sexual ...

As the opening of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Churchwide Assembly approaches, a group of Lutherans is gathering support to defend traditional marriage and defeat proposed changes in ...

The nation’s largest Lutheran denomination will finally speak with a collective voice this month on whether to allow gay and lesbian pastors and on whether same-sex couples may receive rites of ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 2009 Churchwide Assembly was a landmark gathering. After years of debate, voting members at last August's assembly opened the door for non-celibate gays to ...

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 ...

Karen Broderson, of First Lutheran Church in Watford City, listens during a talk by the Rev. Anna Madsen at the seminar for pastors and lay leaders at Good Shepherd Chuch in Bismarck. In back are ...

MARION - A Marion church failed Sunday to attain a two-thirds majority in a vote that would have meant the nearly 1,800-member congregation would leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The ...