With Barbara A. Below As staff at the International Center sort through the logistical side of the 2013 Synod convention — with matters such as voting ballots and seating; bylaws; and nametags — the Rev. Timothy Pauls is hard at…

LCMS congregations are advised to quickly pass along to their 2012 district convention delegates information in a postcard that is being mailed to congregations Sept. 28. The postcard announces an Oct. 15 test for those who will participate in the…

(RNS) — The white working class, a potentially rich bloc of voters for Republicans or Democrats, hasn’t settled on Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama, a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) shows. “These white working-class voters are…

(RNS) — Texas cheerleaders can continue to use banners with Bible verses after a court granted them a temporary restraining order against their school district. A judge in Hardin County, Texas, issued the order Sept. 20 after parents filed suit on…

NEW ORLEANS (RNS) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a city law that was recently used to arrest Christian evangelists who were preaching on Bourbon Street during Southern Decadence, the annual celebration of gay culture in the…

CLEVELAND (RNS) — A federal judge has given defense attorneys until Sept. 27 to convince him that nine Amish defendants convicted of hate crimes should not be imprisoned until their sentencing Jan. 24. In a motion filed Sept. 21, Assistant U.S.…

(RNS) — Cheerleaders at an East Texas high school are fighting their school district’s orders to stop using Bible quotes on their signs at football games. In August, a school with fewer than 500 students 30 miles north of Beaumont, Texas,…

(RNS) — U.S. Sikhs are taking heart in a widely publicized Senate hearing on hate crimes and a pledge by the Justice Department to consider tracking hate crimes directed at their community. The Sept. 19 hearing featured Harpreet Singh Saini,…

By Adriane Dorr Bishop Hans-Jörg Voigt of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany was elected chairman of the International Lutheran Council (ILC) during the council’s most recent meeting Sept. 16-21 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.   The Rev. Dr. Albert B.…

The deadline established by bylaw for the submission of reports and overtures to the 2013 convention of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod is March 2, 2013. Boards and commissions of the Synod are asked to submit their reports to the convention…

Bylaw 3.3.3.1 (c) calls upon the secretary of the Synod to “publish the names of the members of the Committee for Convention Nominations (CCN) in an official periodical of the Synod as soon as possible after they have been elected.” …

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The Board of Trustees of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Foundation herewith calls for nominations for the position of president of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Foundation.  The president reports to the Board of Trustees of the Foundation and relates to the…

The following institutions of the Concordia University System (CUS) are seeking candidates for positions: Concordia College Alabama, Selma, Ala., seeks to fill a position in biology. Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Mich., seeks a center director (Dearborn Heights). Concordia University, Nebraska, Seward,…