Nearly 22,000 young adults from the around the country and world are heading home after spending five days in New Orleans for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod National Youth Gathering.It's a time ...

Matthew Becker had raised questions about the denomination’s stance against the ordination of women, as well as its teaching of creationism, or the literal reading of the story of creation in the book ...

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has elected the denomination’s director of disaster response as president, a candidate backed by its more conservative members. Matthew Harrison received 54 percent ...

The Houston native who led the second-largest Lutheran denomination in the country for nearly a decade was defeated in his reelection bid at the church's triennial convention this week in downtown ...

After a week of preliminary committee meetings, nearly 900 voting and 700 advisory delegates participated in the forty-sixth regular convention of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod 1 Only about ...

ST. LOUIS -- The president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod won a second term Sunday after he called on church members to put behind them a disagreement over a prayer offered at New York's Yankee ...

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the St. Louis-based organization with 6,200 congregations in the U.S. and Canada, will honor a decision by the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay members, but with ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --For the first time, more than 20,000 teenagers from around the world are in Minneapolis for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Youth Gathering. From the food to the fun to the ...

ST. LOUIS (RNS) A decision by the leader of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to censure a pastor for participating in a prayer service for victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre has reopened old ...

KIRKWOOD, Mo. — Monday morning a semi-truck full of supplies will leave St. Louis for North Carolina to help people begin to rebuild once the flood waters of Florence start to recede. The Lutheran ...

The Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, speaks in the chapel after the installation of the Rev. Ross Johnson (left) as the director of disaster response before a ...