Whenever I visit a congregation and notice that communion is part of the liturgy, I get curious about the language that welcomes people to the meal. The bulletin often includes carefully worded ...

Back in jail chaplaincy days, I led seven interfaith services each week. These were very informal, of course, since they were held in locked cells, through steel bars, in courtyard cages made of ...

In pairs, small groups and one by one, people walked up to the cross outside Aldersgate United Methodist Church on Easter Sunday. There, they took Communion on the grassy hill overlooking North ...

While most Christians agree on the big issues — most importantly, on the divinity of Jesus — there’s still much that continues to separate Christian churches from one another. Practices and rituals.

Soon the table will be set, and all will be ready. This coming weekend, Christians across the globe will join together in breaking bread in an expression of unity and hope. For over 75 years, many ...

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Lutherans and Methodists, comprising the nation’s two largest mainline Protestant churches, will share in the sacrament of Holy Communion under an interim agreement approved Thursday ...

A female pastor at an Anglican church in northeast England is facing widespread criticism for placing the trans-inclusive ...

It’s a meal that often divides us. It needn’t be that way. I attended church twice a week growing up. I had no choice. It’s not that I disliked church. But like many children, I struggled to ...

Until a few years ago, 298-year-old Donegal Presbyterian Church did not host a Heritage Sunday worship service. But a bus tour highlighting the history of three churches — Donegal, Derry Presbyterian ...

One year ago, with the world rapidly changing around me, I stepped away from active ministry with a new calling. I dedicated one year to visiting churches, going to denominations and faiths that I ...