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 ...

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 ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Saint Columbanus, the first ordination of a Luther ...

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 ...

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 ...

A top Lutheran leader has hailed a decision by the world’s Methodist churches to sign on to an agreement that brought Catholics and Lutherans closer together on a key issue that rent them apart at the ...

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 ...