These are challenging times for our nation and the world, certainly for the congregations, synods and churchwide organization of the ELCA. The great recession...

After a two-hour conference call meeting held in executive session, the ELCA Church Council voted Aug. 4 in open session to cut the...

12-year-old volunteers to stamp out malaria.

Delegates of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Convention elected a new president, approved a restructuring plan, voted to continue cooperative work with the ELCA, and...

Members of the Florida-Bahamas Synod nurture a connection.

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- It appears that Hurricane Earl did little damage to Eastern North Carolina Sept. 3. The eye of the storm remained offshore, and Evangelical...

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Finlandia University, Hancock, Mich., reported it will welcome 673 students to its campus this fall, an increase of 18 percent over the 568 students...

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- People around the world are on the move, and Lutherans are examining some of the reasons why -- climate change, food security, civil and...

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Leaders and members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) living along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States are preparing for Hurricane...

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- International Disaster Response (IDR) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) announced Aug. 31 it has committed an additional $110,000 to respond to...