Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

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Our investigation of a little-known church community in northeastern Minnesota started with something that has become depressingly familiar: child sex abuse. The Minnesota Star Tribune and ProPublica ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — In downtown York, the 96-year-old Union Lutheran Church at 408 West Market Street may be demolished to make way for a new affordable housing development — but church leaders ...

Union Lutheran congregation plans to demolish its aging church to build affordable housing. The new $15.2 million project will include apartments, community spaces, and a commercial storefront. The ...

BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. (WSBT) — A former pastor is being charged with multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct in St. Joseph, Michigan. Glen Rosenbaum is a former pastor at the Grace Lutheran Church ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop Saturday, a landmark moment for the predominantly white denomination. "It hasn't really ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – The First Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls is in the process of leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The church held its first vote on September 28, where 360 ...

A prominent Columbia church has voted to leave its denomination, in another sign of the shifting foundations of American Protestantism in the 21st century. Worshipers at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at ...

Hymnody is a powerful ecumenical tool. No matter where I worship, be it in a Baptist Lutheran, Catholic or Presbyterian Church, the bulk of hymns in that church’s Hymnal mirror those found in my ...

Katharina von Schlegel (1697–1768) was a German poet and hymn writer. Born into a Lutheran family, she contributed significantly to religious poetry during the 18th century. Though little is known ...