After finally accepting her call to preach, Spencer Cullom took a step of faith and began the yearslong process to become ordained in the United Methodist Church. She believed God called her to become ...

Luke Matthews is the only aspirant to ministry I’ve met who got his tattoos in prison. Incarcerated for arson and second-degree murder, he has spent much of the last two decades trying to figure out ...

What this sometimes-contentious rite looks like in global Christianity. Ordination to Christian ministry is a conversation that continues to engage evangelical Christians. For some, it’s the debate ...

Laura McMasters, a longtime campus minister, performed her first baptism in February—welcoming an international student into ...

As the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches, I recall (with the aid of Google Calendar) that my last work trip before the lockdown was in January 2020 to cover the lead-up to the ...

After moving to the United States at age 9, Marion Park pretty much grew up in her Presbyterian Korean immigrant church in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her father served as a pastor there, following in ...

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will host a film screening Sunday telling the story of 11 women who broke the “stained-glass ceiling” 50 years ago through their ordination into Episcopal priesthood, ...

Nine men — one priest and eight permanent deacons — will be ordained into the Catholic Diocese of Belleville on Saturday at St. Peter Cathedral. "I personally called these ordandi to Holy Orders in ...

The expected ordination of an English bishop-elect has been postponed indefinitely while Church officials conduct a “canonical process.” The Diocese of Plymouth said in a statement this week that the ...