LONDON (RNS) — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has flatly dismissed famed scientist Stephen Hawking’s claim that gravity, not God, was responsible for creating the universe. Hawking, a retired professor at England’s Cambridge University and best-selling author, insists in his…

PETERSBURG, Ky. (RNS) — Ken Ham, the Australian-born creator of the Creation Museum, looks around the throng of about a thousand guests on a hot, August morning and notes that “for a Tuesday, this is not a bad crowd.” In…

LCMS World Mission is offering free online videos and resources that are designed to help congregations, schools and Bible-study groups celebrate “Mission Month” in October — or at any time of the year. “Your congregation may have a tradition of…

The Lutheran Education Journal, formerly known in print as Lutheran Education, is now a Web-only publication. First published in 1865 as Evangelisch-Lutherisches Schulblatt (Evangelical Lutheran School Paper), the Journal is designed for Lutheran educators.  It includes articles about research on…

Anyone interested in urban ministry is invited to attend the second annual Chicago Urban Ministry Summit, Oct. 1 at Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Ill. The summit is sponsored by Chicago Urban Missions, an LCMS mission society.  It will explore…

Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, is offering a conference Oct. 1-2 on “Lutheranism and the Classics.” The conference is intended for pastors, educators, professional classicists, Latin students and their teachers, and anyone who is interested in the ancient languages of…

Rev. Timothy J. Scharr was installed as president of the Southern Illinois District Aug. 29 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Nashville, Ill. Scharr, 52, succeeds Rev. Herbert C. Mueller Jr., who was elected as LCMS first vice president at the…

Lutheran Service Book, the hymnal released by Concordia Publishing House in 2006, has sold one million copies, according to the Synod’s publisher. “People need a way to give voice to their faith. There are three core books that can do…

By Marvin Bergman By now, the newness of school supplies may be wearing off. Well into their first month back in classrooms, students are already counting down the days to Christmas break.  But in confirmation classes, young Lutherans show no…

Revs. Kenton and Nathan Wendorf — the husband and son of Lutheran Women’s Missionary League President Janice Wendorf — are the authors of this year’s “LWML Sunday” materials. Rev. Kenton Wendorf is senior pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Grafton,…

“What’s a soul worth?” That will be the theme pointing to the focus of teenage spirituality for “Youth Ministry 2011” (YM 2011) — LCMS Youth Ministry’s annual conference for professional and lay youth workers — set for Jan. 4-6 at the…

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Sept. 1 canceled a “Discernment for Interim Ministry” workshop that had been planned for Sept. 28-29. For more information about LCMS Intentional Interim Ministry, visit www.interimministrylcms.org. Posted Sept. 1, 2010 Return to Top

By Paula Schlueter Ross If all goes according to plan, The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod will open its third Asian international school — in Hanoi, Vietnam — in fall 2011.  The other two schools are in Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.…

(RNS/ENInews) — Conservative Lutherans are forming a new church body they say will “uphold confessional principles” after disagreements with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) over the ordination of gay clergy. The new North American Lutheran Church (NALC) is…

(RNS) — World Vision, the Christian humanitarian organization, can fire employees who disagree with its theological tenets, a federal appeals court ruled on Aug. 23. In a 2-1 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that World Vision…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Conservative Christian groups won a major victory Aug. 23 when a Washington judge halted federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to allow a suit challenging the practice as illegal to go forward. The suit, by a…