Ordination is typically the final step in a long and often expensive process that includes dedicating one's life to ministry, completing a bachelor's and/or master's degree and fulfilling the ...

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people become ministers through the Universal Life Church, a non-denominational religious organization that ordains anyone who wants (for free) and advocates for ...

This reporting of ordained female ministers highlights the importance for churches not just to acknowledge a woman’s call to ...

Kate Black is getting married and wants her brother-in-law, Matthew Carrigan, to officiate. So they are perched on a small couch in a slightly cheesy Manhattan hotel, searching the Internet for a ...

University of Chicago Divinity School student Rebecca MacMaster entered seminary out of a desire to make the Catholic Church "the best it can be" and to answer a calling to teach and work in college ...

Complementarians and egalitarians share common ground in lay leadership. As managing editor of the Christian Research Journal and a women’s ministry trainer in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) ...

I bet you thought the day would never come where you would be bonding two people together in holy matrimony. Well, that time has come and it’s not that simple. You have to become an ordained minister.

Is the Holy Spirit telling us that female exclusion from ordained ministry and church decision-making is no longer acceptable ...

Speaking during the service, the Senior Pastor of ROGEPA, Rev. Dr. Adebisi Nath Olubisi, expressed deep gratitude to God for ...

In 1992, 42-year-old Kathy Manis Findley was ordained by Southern Baptists in El Paso, Texas, after members of her own congregation in Arkansas repeatedly declined to do so. The debate split Lakeshore ...

More than 100 South Carolina clergy have been notified that they have been removed from the ordained ministry of The Episcopal Church and are “deprived of the right to exercise... the gifts and ...

Tulou is a member of UUCR and completed a two-year ministerial internship at UUC. The two congregations will be joined by ministers and seminarians from near and far, including three ministers who ...