Martin Luther’s theological thinking, as it worked to shape the Lutheran world in the centuries following the Reformation, has had a decisive impact on the creation of the Nordic social-democratic ...

Following the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s controversial recent assembly, a two-day gathering of Lutherans will begin in Indianapolis on Friday. Organizers say the meeting will begin the ...

Curry’s installation marks a milestone for the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination, which remains more than 90% white. The Evangelical Lutheran ...

According to Estonian theologian Dr. Johann-Christian Põder, dynamic state reforms along individualist capitalist lines, which he sees as stemming from a more 'Calvinist' approach to society, need to ...

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 ...

Katie Langston didn’t know much about Lutheranism when she enrolled in a Lutheran seminary. She only knew Mormonism, the religion of her childhood, had become wrapped up with both joy and pain, and ...

The poet Robinson Jeffers opposed America’s entry into the Second World War after Pearl Harbor. It made him persona non grata in American letters: “When ‘Pearl Harbor’ and other poems were collected ...

John Carl Ylvisaker was a rarity: A widely traveled musician rooted in Minnesota, and a self-effacing man whose music was sung by thousands across the world. Ylvisaker, one of the most popular ...

Religious and cultural Lutheran values have shaped Nordic societies for centuries. But instead of encouraging capitalism as in Calvinist Europe, Lutheranism promoted a social-democratic welfare state ...