Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brandi Kellett long sensed she had a gift for leading ministry, but the church she calls home didn't fully affirm her ability to ...

The unsettled condition of the diaconate may actually be a beneficial force, especially at a time when the church is ...

Beth Allison Barr challenges the narrative that women have never exercised church authority. In 2021, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler reaffirmed his denomination’s stance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fallout from a debate in the Southern Baptist Convention about women in ministry, though largely settled at the national level ...

Growing up, my grandmother played an integral role in my spiritual development. She was a devout Catholic who participated in many of the church’s activities. She went to confession, practiced ...

During the creation process (Genesis 1-2). But one thing wasn’t good. God designed Eden as a paradise, yet something was missing. Adam needed Eve. Without her inclusion, it wasn’t good. Let’s not make ...

Pope Francis shares a moment with a group of teenagers after his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Jan. 31, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The ...

Last fall, I had the incredible privilege of being one of 55 pilgrims to Rome with the organization Discerning Deacons, including people from the United States, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and Australia.

FROM the time the Church realized that it was her vocation to be "the Assembly" — qahal — of God in the New Testament, it was ...

As Sr. Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso accompanies a group deep into the Amazon to protected territory belonging to the Karipuna people, thousands of butterflies dart in all directions like beautifully ...

On the back wall of Dolores Mission Church in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles hangs a painting that depicts the assassination of the Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero. "I remember me as ...

Koinonia, planted by Christ Presbyterian Church and partly known for its presence in a majority Black neighborhood, has left the Presbyterian Church in America for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.