ORLANDO, Fla. _ Millions of Lutherans will be able to sing a new song _ actually some 300 new songs _ to the Lord in an updated worship book that offers more options for contemporary worship and less ...

Catholics and Lutherans have made another step toward joint commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 by issuing common liturgical guidelines for ecumenical services to mark ...

On his lips were Lutheran liturgy. But streaming from his accordion-playing hands were lively sounds of traditional polka. Ronnie Bruns, a member of the four-piece Polka Spirit Band from Shiner, led a ...

GRAND FORKS – Several Lutheran churches in the area are joining together to present two events leading up to the celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday. A concert, titled “Lift Every Voice: A ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - When the congregations of two denominations worship together for the first time on Sunday, it will mark the formalization of something the Rev. Craig Brown has known was there all along ...

The worship of God by immigrant German Lutherans in northern Schuylkill County began in a humble log cabin church 200 years ago in the Ringtown Valley. On Sunday, members of St. John’s Lutheran Church ...

“The Fire Song: A Parable of Redemption” tells the story of the Aug. 28, 2014, arson that destroyed the church at 603 Washington Ave. It shows how the congregation responded and chose to rebuild their ...

SALISBURY – More than 500 voting members and guests from congregations of the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America gathered for the June 2-3 assembly in Greensboro. The ...

As the sun beat down at Spirit of Hope Church in Detroit, Jeremy Smith, 16, sliced through a long tree branch in an alleyway near the house of worship. He was helping clear brush on Thursday, one of ...

FARGO – When Grace Lutheran Church, then a German-speaking community, began meeting officially as a church body in 1898, it had to appeal to neighbors for worship, borrowing space from the nearby ...

PARIS (RNS) The new guidelines suggest ecumenical services have two presiders, one Catholic and one Lutheran, and several prayer readers of both faiths. PARIS (RNS) Catholics and Lutherans have made ...