Editor's note: After our editorial "Correct an injustice: Ordain women" (NCR, Dec. 7-20), several readers asked us to provide more background on some of the issues raised by the editorial. This is the ...

Earlier this year I attended an ordination service for a good friend. During the course of that worship service she went from being a faithful lay member of the United Church of Christ to an ordained ...

Beyond advocating the liberation of black South Africans and an end to the apartheid regime, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was known for his willingness to stand up for the rights of other oppressed groups ...

One year after Grandview Church disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church over the denomination’s stance on LGBTQ+ issues, the free-standing church in Manheim Township will mark a historic ...

(RNS) — In January, at an ecumenical prayer service in Warsaw for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a recently ordained Lutheran priest, the Rev. Wiktoria Matloch, was asked to leave the event ...