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Lutheran split over gays shakes up social service network

Jennifer Vanasco — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:26:37 +0000

(New York) One of the largest social service networks in the United States, working in areas ranging from adoption to disaster relief, faces a shakeup because of Lutheran divisions over the(...)

Lutherans split over gay pastors, Bible beliefs

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:00:53 +0000

(Grove City, Ohio) Critics of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination and its more open stance toward gay clergy formed a new Lutheran church Friday at a meeting of a conservative activist(...)

Anti-gay pastor back to pulpit after gay “accusations”

logointern1 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:45:44 +0000

Minneapolis (AP) — A Lutheran pastor in Minneapolis who opposes gay people being allowed to lead congregations said Monday he is attracted to men, but that he’s not a hypocrite because(...)

Gay Lutheran pastors to join church roster

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:04:26 +0000

Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay area and were barred from serving in the nation's largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are being welcomed into the denomination.

African Lutherans voice opposition to gay marriage

Jennifer Vanasco — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:00:32 +0000

Lutheran church leaders in Tanzania and Ethiopia – the two largest Lutheran bodies in Africa – are opposing “same-sex marriage and those who support the legitimacy of such marriage” in advance(...)

Lutherans seeing fallout over gay clergy issue

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:14:25 +0000

Until a few weeks ago, the Rev. Gail Sowell was pastor at two Lutheran churches in the small Wisconsin town of Edgar. That was before members of both congregations jumped headfirst into the(...)

Georgia Lutheran church votes to stay despite gay rift

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:00:39 +0000

(Columbus, Ga.) A Columbus Lutheran church has voted to remain in its denomination, on the heels of a decision by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America that allows gays who have partners(...)

New Lutheran body to form after gay pastor vote

Jennifer Vanasco — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:58:22 +0000

(New Brighton, Minn.) The split over gay clergy within the country’s largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from(...)

Sweden’s Lutheran church names first lesbian bishop

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:00:17 +0000

(Stockholm) Sweden’s Lutheran church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave clergy the right to wed same-sex couples.

Eva Brunne became bishop of Stockholm’s(...)

Conservative Lutherans organize after vote on gays

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:00:36 +0000

(Fishers, Ind.) Conservative members of the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination voted Saturday to spend the next 12 months deciding whether to split from the church after it liberalized its(...)