MADISON, Wis.—Two Madison evangelical churches—both among the city’s largest in their heydays—have merged in what church leaders say is an unusual case of congregations uniting instead of ...

Paul Southwick, a gay evangelical attorney in Oregon ... with traditional Bible views and hope to remain in conservative churches. Others agree with traditional teaching on marriage and have ...

Other Twin Cities Lutheran churches also have taken action against the ELCA because of the vote. In September, St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Minneapolis took a first step to leave ...

Sunday’s vote by members of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church is the first step in the process a congregation goes through to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, or ELCA ...

They were two church ladies with no church, so they started their own, alternating services between their homes in St. Paul’s West Seventh ... of St. Mark Evangelical Lutheran Church ...

Sojourners, the liberal-leaning evangelical advocacy group, is also participating. “In the Anglo churches, there are so many more Hispanic people that we know and love,” said the Rev. Joel ...

When Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church opened on St. Paul’s East ... bridge a cultural divide in the community. Though many Twin Cities Hmong are Christian, the Hmong culture is not rooted ...

The church was born in protest against slavery, and the denomination is Methodist in terms of doctrine and order of worship. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, along with other Lutheran ...