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 ...

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 ...

Weddings in the state were thrown into uncertainty under the new law, which has been temporarily suspended after it was challenged in court. By Christine Hauser The house in Chattanooga, Tenn., was ...

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 ...

DMX will be ordained posthumously at Foster Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, a historic site where his faith-driven legacy will be honored. DMX will be posthumously ordained as a minister at the Foster ...

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, ...