Ever since its creation 20 years ago, a North Dakota native has served a key position in the nation's largest Lutheran body. The Rev. Lowell Almen has been the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's ...

With the bang of a gavel and a moment to honor the Native Americans who first called Milwaukee home, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton opened the ELCA Churchwide Assembly. The primary decision-making ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will not remove conscience protections for members who oppose same-sex marriage, according to a church official. In 2022, the progressive mainline ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – The First Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls is in the process of leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The church held its first vote on September 28, where 360 ...

One of Fargo-Moorhead's largest Lutheran churches has chosen to withhold money from the national offices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on the heels of the denomination's controversial ...

(RNS) — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is one of several mainline denominations reckoning with the role they played in the federal boarding school system. (RNS) — George McCauley can still ...

MANKATO — One of the largest groups of Christian churches in the U.S. recently voted to become a sanctuary denomination, prompting local discussions on how to put the declaration into practice. The ...

An Atlanta pastor once ousted from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for being in an openly gay relationship will now lead the biggest Lutheran church in St. Paul. Gloria Dei Lutheran ...

On Saturday, Sept. 6, a total of 47 members and friends of Living Lord Lutheran Church in Bartlett participated in a variety of mission activities for a special day of volunteerism called “God’s Work.

There's a feud brewing on the prairie between faith and farming. Another church has voted to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but this time it's over a new stance the denomination's ...

P-B reporter Matt Russell on Twitter: twitter.com/PBmattrussell What happened: Wangen Prairie Lutheran Church in Cannon Falls decided to stay with the Evangelical ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS) — The largest Lutheran denomination in the United States shared its Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to American Indian and Alaska Native People for the ...