Vaagenes retired as pastor of North Heights Church in 1999, and was succeeded by Robert Cottingham. In 2002, the church left the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and joined the Alliance of ...

Micah Louwagie was formally installed as a pastor for St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Fargo on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. Louwagie is the first openly transgender pastor of a North Dakota parish that ...

In North Dakota, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America lost 2.9 percent of its followers; in Minnesota, it gained 3.7 percent, far below the population's growth rate of 12.4 percent, ...