Minneapolis-area Lutherans oppose marriage amendment The Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA voted to oppose changing the state Constitution to ban gay marriage. By ROSE FRENCH, Star Tribune ...

MINNEAPOLIS - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted 958-51 this afternoon to enter into full communion with the United Methodist Church. Delegates made the move at its Churchwide ...

Now she takes on the Minneapolis synod - the largest in the ELCA, with more than 188,000 baptized Lutherans.