Decentralizing doctrinal authority, or deciding certain doctrinal questions at local levels rather than universally, has been seen as a pivotal step for those aiming to make dramatic changes to ...

A Nov. 15 editorial in The Times offered the newspaper's opinion of the "divisiveness exemplified by the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod doctrine" in the wake of charges brought by seven of its pastors ...

For ten days, in San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, 1,000 delegates to the 44th triennial convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod labored to keep their closely knit conservative denomination ...

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, traditionally one of the most aloof of U.S. denominations, is edging into the ecumenical century. At its biennial convention last week in New York City, the synod ...