EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA Archives - MinistryWatch
Represents second lawsuit challenging government barring clergy from DHS facilities.
A group of religious organizations and faith leaders in Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging the agency is violating their religious freedom by denying them access to immigrant detainees ...
The Social Message on Child Protection prioritizes protecting the vulnerable over confessional confidentiality
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Council has adopted the Social Message on Child Protection as an official social message.
Debts, declining enrollment spur decision to move to Lenoir-Rhyne University
After more than a century in Columbia, South Carolina, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary will close its historic campus and move to Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina.
But Non-Denoms and Anglicans Are On The Rise
MinistryWatch President Warren Smith comments on one or more stories in the week’s news, adding an additional perspective or, sometimes, a behind-the-scenes look at how the story came to be.
A deep dive into the trajectory of nine denominations.
Five traditions are down by at least 30%. The ELCA is down 41%. The United Church of Christ is less than half the size it was in the late 1980s. The United Methodists are already ...
Lutheran Services in America began in 1997 to provide various services to more than 300 independently operated Lutheran health and social services nonprofit organizations. Its staff of about 20 are located in Washington, D.C.
A Buffalo man was awarded $30 million in damages by the New York State Supreme Court Sept. 29 after a jury determined a Lutheran pastor had molested him when he was a child.
The metropolitan New York synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is suing a pastor who recently sold the church-provided apartment where he has lived for 30 years, saying that although the pastor’s name ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Saturday.
Steven Woyen, a former pastor and church musician in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America who worked in Ohio, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa, pled not guilty this week to sexual battery charges that date ...
