Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people become ministers through the Universal Life Church, a non-denominational religious ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) -- Officials in the Church of the Brethren will meet next month to review the case of a gay minister who could be in danger of being removed from the clergy. Matthew Smucker, 34, ...

This week, the Baltimore-Washington annual conference of the United Methodist Church voted in favor of ordaining the Reverend Joey Heath-Mason. This result was surprising to the openly gay and married ...

Service is all in a day's -- and evening's and night's -- work for Dr. Barbara Elliott. During the day, Elliott can be found teaching, conducting research, and advising students as a professor in ...

THIBODAUX, La. (Archdiocese for M.S., U.S.A)– The Reverend Mr. Daniel Duplantis, 2d Lt, USAFR, a candidate for the Catholic priesthood and United States military chaplaincy, was ordained a ...

Canonists, seminarians, as well as Methodist and episcopal laymen across the U.S., were raising eyebrows last week over an ordination as rare as the California condor. The Episcopal Bishop of the ...

PAXINOS — Terry K. Leininger received ordination at 6 p.m. Jan. 13 at Augustaville Wesleyan Church. The Rev. Dr. Harry Wood, district superintendant of the Penn-Jersey District of The Wesleyan Church, ...