Rev. Yehiel Curry succeeds Rev. Elizabeth Eaton, who served for 12 years and was the first woman to lead the Evangelical ...
Hawley Lutheran Church will split from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after members voted overwhelmingly Sunday to leave the denomination. The vote was the culmination of a yearlong debate ...
What happened: A conservative Lutheran group announced it will form a separate network from the ELCA. Why it matters: It’s a further sign of deep divisions in the country’s largest Lutheran ...
Bishop Yehiel Curry looked out at the hundreds of leaders and parishioners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who ...
After years of struggling over sexuality and structural issues with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, some congregants at Fargo's Atonement Lutheran Church want to call it quits. The south ...
As an observer to what is currently taking place in the local ELCA Lutheran churches regarding whether or not to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America because of its new statement regarding ...
Siouxland's largest Lutheran congregation took its first step toward leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America on Sunday, citing the ELCA's progressive liberalism with the word of God as the ...
MINNEAPOLIS — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has become the first North American denomination to declare itself a sanctuary church, committed to supporting and sheltering migrants entering ...
A new social statement from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America labels patriarchy and sexism as sins and acknowledges the church’s complicity in them. The social statement — titled "Faith, ...
FITCHBURG — Emanuel Lutheran Church collected, blessed, and gave away upwards of 675 brand new books for children in grades K ...
A Lutheran congregation in Minneapolis said Wednesday that it voted to leave the denomination because the church’s governing body had voted to let gay men and lesbians serve as pastors. Sunday’s vote ...
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 ...