October 9, 2025 The council — which serves as the ELCA churchwide organization’s board of directors and interim legislative authority between meetings of a churchwide assembly — took the following actions on three memorials referred to the council at the adjournment of the 2025 Churchwide Assembly: • Directed Theological Discernment staff in the ELCA churchwide organization to review a request for a new social message on rural, remote communities and sovereign tribal nations,

March 13, 2026 Itasca, Ill. — The Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met March 3-7 at the Eaglewood Resort and Conference Center in Itasca, Ill. The conference is an advisory body of the ELCA that comprises 65 synod bishops, the presiding bishop and the secretary. In his presiding bishop’s report to the conference, the Rev. Yehiel Curry reinforced the priority area he has identified for his first three years in office: A connected churc

Toward a common liturgical celebration of the Feast of Creation Global and national church bodies take major step in advancing a shared vision for elevating the annual Feast of Creation of 1 September to a liturgical feast. 23 Mar 2026 | English Image Photo: LWF/Johanan Celine Valeriano Church representatives discuss how September 1 observance can be elevated to a shared ecumenical commitment (LWI) – Christian World Communions, ecumenical bodies, national churches and congr

In a recent segment of "Good Morning America," Christopher Vergara, Vice President of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical...

April 16 2024 The ELCA AMMPARO Global team, including Rachel Eskesen, ELCA area desk director for Europe (far right), and Mary Campbell,...

ELCA seminary to relocate to Lenoir-Rhyne University main campus March 7, 2024 Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (LTSS), one of the...

The 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly will be held on July 28 – August 2 in Phoenix, Arizona. Media Highlights from the 2022 ELCA Churchwide...

4/11/2024 2:50:00 PM ​CHICAGO — Building on a shared vision for gospel-centered hospitality and inclusion, Episcopal Migration Ministries...