As I understand it, most Norwegian emigrants were “high” church. Even in Iowa my church retained, how do you say it? - the form of singing the liturgy by the pastor. So maybe the “Episcopal Church” was the answer to that need.
I am grateful for the way God used Luther - I probably admire him more than any man. He understood the core of the gospel “justification by faith, & imputed righteousness” & that “through the will of God & not man” (i.e. faith itself is from God).
In the upper Midwest the ELS & Wisconsin synods retain the Biblical teaching while the ELCA, formed in part from mergers of its Norwegian antecedents by the Election Controversy in 1917, has gone astray. It should drop the name of Lutheran.
I, too, am grateful for Luther. Are your parents Norwegian?