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 ...

The first week of the Synod on Synodality session is in the books, and if you’ve been following the media’s account of things, you’d be forgiven for thinking the event is primarily focused on ...

A hopeless believer in dialogue, I regularly send messages to the Vatican and bishops to inform them of what the Women's Ordination Conference is up to. These messages are almost always met with ...

(RNS) Seventh-day Adventists voted Wednesday (July 8) not to allow their regional church bodies to ordain women pastors. The vote at their 60th General Conference Session in San Antonio was 1,381 to ...

Sister Theresa Kane, a champion for women's ordination in the Catholic church, has died. She even spoke directly to Pope John Paul II about the issue during his visit to the U.S. in 1979. One of the ...

Fulfilling Buddha's Vision: In Ordination, Buddhist Nuns Seek Equality focuses on the struggle for gender equality in Buddhism, one of the world's oldest and most widely practiced religions. Buddha's ...

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 ...