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.

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 ...

For years, the largest U.S. Lutheran denomination has avoided some of the rancor over the issue of same-sex relationships that has divided the Episcopal Church and, to a lesser extent, the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8212 A leadership board of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has rejected a proposal to require a two-thirds vote on the question of allowing gay pastors. The Church ...

Twenty years ago two San Francisco Lutheran congregations ordained a lesbian couple and a gay man as pastors in defiance of their denomination's ban against non-celibate LGBT people becoming clergy.

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 ...