MOORHEAD - A Moorhead-based Lutheran synod has recovered about $590,000 of the $714,000 that its former bookkeeper is suspected of embezzling, according to a letter to synod members from Bishop ...

More than 1,000 delegates and visitors are expected to attend the fifth assembly of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America June 12-14 at the Kirby Center for ...

It took some persuading for the Rev. Mike Rinehart to become a pastor. Now he's a bishop-elect in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. "I had friends who knew they wanted to be pastors when ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Delegates at the annual assembly of the Eastern North Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday in Grand Forks narrowly defeated - 187 to 167 - a ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — When six synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected female bishops in May, they set a record for the most women chosen in one year to lead the mainline Protestant ...

A Midland church is hosting the installation of the new bishop overseeing this region of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. John Schleicher was elected bishop of the ELCA North/West Lower ...

Conservatives upset over the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's recent decision to allow non-celibate gay clergy have voted to create a free-standing synod and study for a year whether to leave ...