Lutherans and Catholics have pledged to celebrate together the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017, with both sides agreeing to set aside centuries of hostility and prejudice. The ...

ELCA members and Catholics still have differences, such as on married clergy and the ordination of women. (The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, like the Catholic Church, does not ordain women.) ...

For the National Lutheran Council, it appeared that day was dying in the west. Meeting on the West Coast for the first time since its organization in 1918 as the cooperative agency of American ...

Martin Luther likely would be astonished to know that Lutheran churches continue to celebrate his efforts to bring about religious reform 489 years after his calls for change in 1517. Lutherans ...

John Calvin never met Martin Luther. Over the centuries, the doctrinal heirs of the two great reformers have often seemed to interpret this happenstance of history as a command to avoid spiritual ...