Curry's forerunners as African American Lutheran leaders include the Rev. Nelson Wesley Trout, the first Black ELCA synod bishop, and the Rev. Will Herzfeld, a Black presiding bishop for a predecessor ...

Rev. Stephen R. Herr will be installed as the fifth bishop of the Lower Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church ...

A national assembly of Evangelical Lutherans urged its bishops Saturday to refrain from defrocking gay and lesbian ministers who violate a celibacy rule, but rejected measures that would have ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America elected its first openly gay bishop to a six-year term on Friday at an annual assembly in Southern California, officials said. The ...

However, what's truly unfortunate and ''disingenuous'' is that a group of people would take a congregation so rooted in tradition and wrench it out of its good soil, said ELCA assembly delegate Kai ...

Many of us know something about the Protestant Reformation, how, beginning in Germany with Martin Luther in 1517, various groups, “protesting” then policies and activities of the Roman Catholic Church ...

Singer Jeni Fleming will perform in concert Saturday night at the Babcock Theatre. The concert, which begins at 7:30, is part of the Montana Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) ...