The author reveals a Philadelphia church's story and faith's evolving role. Journalist Eliza Griswold turned a chance encounter on the streets of Philadelphia into an exploration of a progressive ...

Bishop Yehiel Curry looked out at the hundreds of leaders and parishioners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who ...

The First Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls is in the process of leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The church ...

West Prairie Lutheran Church was at a crossroads, says David Strand, a lifelong member. Attendance was dropping at the rural Kindred, N.D., church, averaging 30 people. Finances were dour. And members ...

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power and Justice in an American Church. By Eliza Griswold. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 352 pages; $30. Headline; £25 THEY CONGREGATED in an opioid-plagued ...

A prominent Columbia church has voted to leave its denomination, in another sign of the shifting foundations of American Protestantism in the 21st century.

In April we attended an ELCA South East Synod meeting in Owatonna, on what was called a hearing on the "Third Sexuality Study" the ELCA is conducting. They have studied this civil issue since 2001 at ...

Jimmy Carter referenced Jesus in an interview with Playboy magazine and it cost the Democratic presidential nominee more than he could fathom in the moment. “I’ve committed adultery in my heart many ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. It’s hard to hear the word of the Lord on Facebook Live. Of all the challenges my family faced in 2020—and there were many—online church was one of the worst.

Lutheran congregations in Moorhead and Hawley, Minn., each engaged in passionate, yet polite, discussions on recent controversial decisions made regarding gays serving in the clergy. The meetings at ...

FARGO -- 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 noncelibate ...