The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 2009 Churchwide Assembly was a landmark gathering. After years of debate, voting members at last August's assembly opened the door for non-celibate gays to ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Following a congregational vote held at First Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls, the results ...

The Rev. Kevin T. Shock, of Howard, Centre County, will be installed as bishop of the Allegheny Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mount ...

The largest Lutheran church in North Dakota has suspended its giving to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America because of the Chicago-based denomination's recent decision to allow openly gay ...

Fargo's largest congregation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has suspended its funding to the denomination because of controversial decisions regarding homosexuality made at the recent ...

CHICAGO — The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) was deeply honored to welcome Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton for her inaugural visit to ...

Membership in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the country’s largest Lutheran denomination, has fallen for the 16th consecutive year, the ELCA has announced. While Lutheran churches are ...

Christian leaders condemned the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for its decision to install its first openly transgender bishop, calling the move a "subversion of the creation order" and proof ...

GROVE CITY, Ohio — 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.

A Midland church is hosting the installation of the new bishop overseeing this region of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. John Schleicher was elected bishop of the ELCA North/West Lower ...

There’s a crisis at United Lutheran Seminary in eastern Pennsylvania. It seems that around 20 years ago, its new president professed a totally mainstream (at the time) Christian view about ...