CHICAGO (RNS) — When six synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected female bishops in May, they set a record for the most women chosen in one year to lead the mainline Protestant ...

Pritchett realizes there are issues to be worked out with the notion of a female Holy Spirit. Mormonism teaches that God the Father and Jesus are separate beings with exalted bodies and that the Holy ...

Advent reflections from four women doctors of the church, Thérèse of Lisieux, Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Avila and ...

Amid the sound of gongs, drums and clap sticks, the 34-year-old churchwoman was joined onstage by young Korean dancers wearing white like herself and two Australian aborigines in loincloths and body ...

For 2007-2008 the Chapel staff at Calvin College has planned a worship series around the theme of the Holy Spirit, a theme not often emphasized in the Reformed tradition of Christianity. “God is ...

The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece voted in Athens on Oct. 8, 2004, to restore the female diaconate. All the members of the Holy Synod125 metropolitans and bishops and Archbishop ...