The leadership of any faith body impacts the way all religions do or do not interact respectfully and productively for the common good of the world.

Two years ago, my 11-year-old nephew asked me, "Uncle Kurt, where you ever in Scouts?" I replied, "I'm an Eagle Scout like your Dad." His eyes lit up and replied, "Really?" I replied, "Yes, and I'm proud of it." But as he becomes more involved, I can't be involved anymore. The singular reason: I am gay.

As service became a defining aspect of growing up in America, the infrastructure moved from the church to the schools and became so secularized that conversations around faith were discouraged -- even taboo.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark's Parliament has approved a law allowing same-sex couples to get married in formal church weddings instead of the short...

"Singing the song of our neighbor is not a token kind of thing," says Lange. "It should be an exercise into getting to know who the neighbor is. Why do they sing this song? And how will it open up our vision of God's kingdom?"

Why doesn't my Catholic Church get its own house in order first? Get the plank/log/boulder/semi truck/elephant out of its own eye before it tries to remove a speck from another's eye?

Luther desired to know "what driveth Christ," and he sought to make that drive the cornerstone of Christian life. The pope thinks similarly.

By Jack Jenkins Religion News Service (RNS) Members of the North American Lutheran Church (NALC) have elected an Ohio pastor as their new head bis...

The political and religious communities were set off last week by an article posted on The Atlantic that pointed out Michele Bachmann's former church,...

During the devastating tornado that ripped through Joplin, Mo. Sunday evening and killed at least 90 people, several churches were destroyed. Those th...

GROVE CITY, Ohio — Critics of the country's largest Lutheran denomination and its more open stance toward gay clergy formed a new Lutheran churc...

By Chris Herlinger Religion News Service (RNS/ENInews) Conservative Lutherans are forming a new church body they say will "uphold confessional princ...

By Fredrick Nzwili and Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service NAIROBI (RNS/ENI) The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania says it will not accept mon...

ATLANTA — A gay Atlanta pastor and his partner who have been at the center of a battle over the treatment of gay clergy by the nation's largest Luth...

By Tim Townsend Religion News Service ST. LOUIS (RNS) When the nominations for president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod were tallied and relea...

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America says it is "deeply concerned" for the welfare of employees who...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)- A Lutheran pastor ardently critical of allowing gays into the clergy is on leave from his Minneapolis church after a gay magazine re...