World & Nation
Masturbation is healthy, the Bible supports homosexual unions and teaching teen-agers how to use condoms to prevent disease is a moral imperative, says a task force leading the nation’s largest Lutheran body into the sex wars.
Oct. 23, 1993
High School Sports
For two weeks, Orange Lutheran’s pitching depth has been pretty spectacular.
April 6, 2019
Most of the long-separated groups of U.S.
April 30, 1987
Faith: First accord allows sharing Communion, clergy. Divergence on bishops’ role is key to spurning of second.
Aug. 19, 1997
The split over gay clerics within the country’s largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Nov. 19, 2009
Sports
College football: Cal Lutheran commits six turnovers in 45-23 loss to nationally ranked Pacific Lutheran.
Sept. 14, 1997
More than 450 years after a rancorous split that spawned mutual condemnations and cost untold lives in religious wars, Lutherans and Roman Catholics are poised to declare that the central issue leading to the 16th century Protestant Reformation no longer divides the two faiths.
June 6, 1998
The bulletin handed out to worshipers at First Lutheran Church of Camarillo the first Sunday in January proudly trumpeted the birth of a new denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, now the nation’s fourth-largest Protestant body.
Jan. 28, 1988
Climaxing a 30-year ecumenical journey, the Episcopal Church gave final approval Saturday to a historic unity agreement with the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination.
July 9, 2000
In what could mark another major step toward Christian unity, the 5.2-million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America votes next week in Philadelphia on accords with four other Protestant denominations and a new understanding with Roman Catholics.
Aug. 9, 1997