LCMS President Dr. Matthew C. Harrison celebrated Pentecost Sunday, June 12, by preaching in Seoul,…
Open Arms offers free child care webinar
The Open Arms Institute is offering a free “Pastor’s Webinar” June 16 at 12:30 p.m.…
Thrivent expands disaster program to more states
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is expanding a national disaster-response funding program it announced in May…
For evangelicals, Bachmann 'speaks our code'
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour warned several hundred Christian conservatives gathered here June…
Wanted: volunteers for Mercy Medical Teams
More than medicine. That’s what Sharon Thomas says she shares each time she takes part…
Gallup: 9 in 10 Americans believe in God
(RNS) — A new Gallup poll finds 92 percent of Americans say they believe in…
U.S. woman is world's longest-serving church organist
MOSS POINT, Miss. (RNS) — For the past 69 years, Ida Mae Cumbest has been…
Oregon couple convicted in faith-healing trial
OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) — After just an hour of deliberation, jurors on June 7…
Woman charged with taking aid for tornado victims
PALMER, Mass. (RNS) — A Massachusetts woman charged with larceny and fraud denied June 7…
Feds rule against second Catholic college
(RNS) — For the second time this year, a federal regulator has rejected the First…
Egyptians want advice, not rule, of clerics
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Four months after the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a new…
Muslim cabbie fights ticket over religious cap
ST. LOUIS (RNS) — Taxi driver Nabeel Langrial was chatting with another cabbie last summer…
Judge hears monks' suit over right to build caskets
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) — Wearing a monk’s robe, Abbot Justin Brown climbed into the witness…
Canadian Lutherans give Bugbee second term as president
Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) opened its ninth triennial convention June 3-6 in Hamilton, Ontario, with a…
Congregations to receive 'Witness, Mercy, Life Together' Bible study
Each LCMS congregation will receive this summer a free copy of a new Bible study…
Thrivent campaign calls on Americans to improve finances
A new campaign sponsored by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans seeks to raise Americans’ awareness of…
