The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Eastern Iowa pastors of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination are joining thousands of others ...

CENTERVILLE — Two Epiphany Lutheran Church pastors, citing a division between their core values and the direction of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, resigned this week, and one has started ...

Nov. 15 was a day of firsts for the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). ELCA Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry, installed Oct. 4 in Minneapolis, came to Christ ...

The election of the Rev. Yehiel Curry to lead the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has given me a renewed sense of hope.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is installing the Rev. Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop on Saturday, a landmark moment for the predominantly white denomination. Curry ...

Living Lord Lutheran Church in Bartlett will install the Rev. Kristian Johnson as its new pastor in a special service at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14. As a member congregation of the Metropolitan Chicago ...

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 ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop Saturday, a landmark moment for the predominantly white denomination. "It hasn't really ...