The day begins with Curry’s address at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, in the Center for Faith and Life Main Hall.

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 ...

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 ...

Three Lutheran pastors from West Virginia are traveling more than 13,000 miles this summer on a bamboo bicycle built for three. The 'Tour de Revs,' which raises awareness of the Evangelical Lutheran ...

GROVE CITY, Ohio — Critics of the country's largest Lutheran denomination and its more open stance toward gay clergy formed a new Lutheran church Friday at a meeting of a conservative activist group.

DANNEBROG — There were some Lutherans in Central Nebraska that just couldn't agree with a decision made by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to accept pastors who are in same-sex sexual ...

A vote to allow gay pastors to preach in member churches has led some congregations to consider leaving the largest body of Lutherans in the United States. On Aug. 21, the Evangelical Lutheran Church ...

FARGO -- The Rev. Bill Rindy, a native of Mayville, N.D., and former high school math teacher, was elected the new bishop of the 100,000-strong Eastern North Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran ...

With a laying on of hands, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday welcomed into its fold seven openly gay pastors who had until recently been barred from the church's ministry. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay Area and were barred from serving in the nation's largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are ...

When a married pastor going through a period of “deep anguish and despair” told a fellow clergyman he needed to confess a sin, he twice asked for, and says he received, an iron-clad guarantee of ...

Several Lutheran pastors have started a petition for a churchwide day that honors the victims of the 2015 Emanuel AME shooting but also fights the racism the pastors say exists within the Lutheran ...