Lutheran Church News

Battle lines have sharpened over sexually active gay clergy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after a conservative faction decided to form a new network of churches, and the first two southeastern Minnesota congregations have voted to leave the ELCA.

No, Jesus did not mean it when he said "love thy brother." That's why the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, after voting in August to not TOTALLY FREAK OUT if churches approved gay clergy, is seeing even more churches looking to split off.

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MARY F. CALVERT/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Flossie Hackman, 71, of Arlington, volunteers at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Northeast while grocery bags full of food wait to be given out at the church's food distribution center.

Lutherans will gather at 6:30 p.m. today at the Watertown Events Center to consider possible responses to the biblical and theological crisis in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Madeline Neinas believes in happy endings. She won't read a book or watch a movie that doesn't end on a positive note.

These are scenes of the St. Paul Lutheran church located on North Sixth and Center streets.

If members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod have heard it once, they've heard their national leaders repeat this mantra a thousand times: "This is not your grandfather's church." That's certainly what musician Phillip Magness experienced when he took a sabbatical from Bethany Lutheran Church in Naperville, Ill., and began a research tour after ...

Authorities believe they know who robbed members of a church at gunpoint early one morning last month before a fish fry.

Women from Grass Valley's Peace Lutheran Church are, beginning with the back row: Siri Fenson, Lorraine Maylum, Myrna Heppe, Norma Toles and Barbara Blackford; front row, Christa Benson, Ingrid Dreyer, Linda Mitchelmore, Diann Lane and Margaret Fischer.

According to the book, the Earth is about 6,000 years old, evolution is wrong and Noah's flood accounts for all of the world's fossils.

The leader of one of Minnesota's largest Lutheran congregations said his Lakeville church plans to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after the denomination loosened restrictions on gays in the clergy.

More than 100 breakaway Lutherans attended their first church meeting in protest to last summer's vote by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to bless same-sex relationships and ordain practicing homosexual ministers.

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod's Lutheran Church Extension Fund is holding its 2009 Fall Leadership Conference November 20 to 22 in Tampa, Fla.

In the small Norwegian immigrant Lutheran churches along the Iowa-Minnesota border, the ladies aid organizations could be counted on to organize their congregations' social lives, raise money and carry out ministry to the wider community.

By Mark Zimmermann Source: Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 WASHINGTON - Today's disciples of Jesus, like the first disciples, should be recognized by how they love each other and, guided by Jesus, they should walk together in a spirit of unity, mutual respect and brotherhood, Archbishop Pietro Sambi told a Washington audience.

Trinity Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Florida/Georgia District President Rev. Greg Walton will be guest speaker Sunday, Nov.

Same-sex relationships go against Scripture and morality, according to a letter mailed Monday by members of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bessemer City.

As a student in need of spending money, Wayne Hollinger got part of his education from a wide range of jobs.

English and Irish Anglican bishops are refusing to attend the ordination of one of a Lutheran fellow cleric in Stockholm--because she is a lesbian.