Ruth Haley Barton explores why participation in church does not always lead to deep spiritual transformation and what our ...

COMMENTARY: A deacon is not merely a generous volunteer with an official title. By ordination, he is sacramentally configured ...

(RNS) — Mainline Protestant denominations have a clergy problem so severe that it’s threatening their existence. They also have a solution at their fingertips. They’re just not using it enough. First, ...