The ordination of gay clergy continues to create tension within Christian denominations in America. The Presbyterian Church (USA), United Methodist Church, United Church of Christ, Episcopal Church ...

The president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has called for the excommunication of unrepentant White supremacists in the church’s ranks, rebuking an extremist effort to exert influence within ...

A local vicar is expected to become the first Burmese pastor ordained by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a news release said Thursday. In July, Vicar Soe Moe will become the pastor of youth and ...

KIRKWOOD, Mo. — Monday morning a semi-truck full of supplies will leave St. Louis for North Carolina to help people begin to rebuild once the flood waters of Florence start to recede. The Lutheran ...

ST. LOUIS (RNS) A decision by the leader of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to censure a pastor for participating in a prayer service for victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre has reopened old ...

The governing body of local Lutheran churches has finally fired back — albeit in the form of a press release — against charges that it illegally locked out the congregation at Bethlehem Lutheran ...

The Rev. Matthew Harrison, after being elected to a second term as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, puts on his jacket shortly before attending a meeting in his office at the LCMS ...

Easily identifiable in big groups of brightly colored T-shirts, nearly 20,000 young Lutherans from across the U.S. have descended on New Orleans for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod's triennial ...

A staff editorial in the student newspaper at Valparaiso University on Feb. 13 asks the question -- Who is a Lutheran? The issue emerged when the president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod was ...