Alan Buresh, a former ELCA pastor, exhibited a pattern of abusive behavior towards multiple women, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation shows. One woman said she reported his actions to church ...

An openly gay pastor who served at a church in Zumbrota is being reinstated to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America following changes last year to policies on same-gender relationships. The Rev.

St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Aurora will hold a joint installation of Pastor Krista Zimmerman and Deacon David Webb on ...

MINNEAPOLIS - The nation's largest Lutheran denomination took openly gay clergy more fully into its fold Friday, as leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to lift a ban that ...

Bishop Jim Arends of the La Crosse Area Synod has friends grieving and others celebrating over the recent vote to allow gay clergy. The work to come is bringing those two groups together, he said. The ...

Barker intended to endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, citing new IRS guidance, but his bishop said the guidance didn't change existing law or church policy. The bishop stated that endorsing candidates ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Fourteen pastors have been nominated for the post of bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's South Dakota Synod. That number will be reduced to five candidates ...

A gay San Francisco pastor, who has historically fought for gay rights in the Lutheran Church, was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography, according to the San Francisco Police ...

It was January 20, 1990 and three seminarians, Jeff Johnson, Ruth Frost, and Phyllis Zillhart, were to be ordained extra ordinem (contrary to the official church policy) in the Evangelical Lutheran ...

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