For years, the largest U.S. Lutheran denomination has avoided some of the rancor over the issue of same-sex relationships that has divided the Episcopal Church and, to a lesser extent, the ...

Members of the oldest Lutheran congregation in Atlanta washed their pastor's feet -- and he washed theirs -- in a gesture of mutual support as he prepared to go before a tribunal that may defrock him ...

Nov. 15 was a day of firsts for the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). ELCA Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry, installed Oct. 4 in Minneapolis, came to Christ ...

MINNEAPOLIS - A blog post by John Piper, a Minneapolis pastor, called Wednesday's tornado in Minneapolis "a gentle but firm warning to the ELCA and all of us: Turn from the approval of sin. Turn from ...