Fargo's Atonement Lutheran Church is leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. By a vote of 211 to 14, Atonement's congregation confirmed on Sunday an earlier decision to secede from the ...

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 ...

Christian Contradictions: The Structures of Lutheran and Catholic Thought. By Daphne Hampson. Cambridge University Press, 323 pp., $59.95. Is there some single basic difference between Catholics and ...

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 ...

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. The overwhelming ...

CAMP HILL — Lutherans in Central Pennsylvania will present a special day devoted to Christian formation, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 8 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 4200 Market St. "Fundamental ...

MILWAUKEE -- The nation's third-largest Lutheran denomination moved to clarify its views on the Catholic Church this week, after being drawn into the national political debate by presidential ...