How do small churches survive? Everyone sat down at Redeemer Lutheran for the Lesson, or first reading. Nothing happened. There was an extra-long pause, which I thought was a period for meditation.

TRENTON — The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer has two early services on Sunday morning. The first, at 8:45 a.m., uses a traditional liturgy and is relatively solemn and quiet. The second, at 10:15 a.m ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber is a dichotomy wrapped in a paradox covered in tattoos. Creation, Advent, Christmas, Lent, Good Friday, Easter and Pentecost ...

SPRINGFIELD - An interfaith prayer service led by Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski, of the Roman Catholic Springfield diocese, and the Rev. Lauren Holm, pastor of Bethesda Lutheran Church, will be held to ...

One of the surprises to come out of the synod on synodality was a call for better-written liturgies. The final report of the October 2023 session of the synod referred to "the widely reported need to ...

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 ...

Pastors from Independent Lutheran churches and Presiding Bishop Robbie Osmundson of Klamath Falls Oregon gathered for a pastoral conference of the Independent Lutheran Diocese in Paoli earlier this ...

First Lutheran Evangelical Church began in October 1875 in a modest clapboard building on Church Street in Ellicott City. Today, as it celebrates it 125th anniversary year, First Lutheran has changed ...