Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church in Huntley recently acknowledged a very special occasion at the church during its services on June 11. Senior Pastor Mark Boster acknowledged the extraordinary ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI (CN) — A nondenominational church based in Seattle and several of its members cannot fight Tennessee’s ban on internet-ordained ministers solemnizing marriages via claims against state ...

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, ...

(RNS) — At a church just outside Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday (Feb. 18), 33 ministers from the Christian Reformed Church in North America stood up to read aloud a declaration, officially ...

Ordinations mark major milestones for two men in the Fall River diocese.

Yesterday the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted to allow the ordination of openly gay and lesbian ministers, joining a growing number of Protestant churches that accept homosexual clergy members. Two ...

CINCINNATI (CN) — Ministers of nondenominational churches ordained online cannot be prevented from solemnizing marriages, the Universal Life Church Monastery argued before an appeals court panel on ...

Are you familiar with Amish ordinations? An ordination is a service where a new minister, deacon or bishop is ordained. We have several examples in the New Testament of ways they ordained a church ...

Don't follow me, for they will give you grief. We laughed then, but decades later, it is not very funny. In fact, it is rather tragic. What is tragic is that women and some supportive men, non-binary ...