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 ...

Pastors from Independent Lutheran churches and Presiding Bishop Robbie Osmundson of Klamath Falls Oregon gathered for a pastoral conference of the Independent Lutheran Diocese in Paoli earlier this ...

A top Lutheran leader has hailed a decision by the world’s Methodist churches to sign on to an agreement that brought Catholics and Lutherans closer together on a key issue that rent them apart at the ...

Bud Veis and Paul Johnson are lifelong Lutherans who wouldn’t dream of leaving their faith. Veis, 63, and Johnson, 72, grew up in the church, married their wives and raised their children there. Both ...

Judged from the scene as the board met, it might have been a good-fellowship meeting. In the recreation basement of Milwaukee’s Pentecost Lutheran Church last week, seven men sat around a quadrangle ...