American mainline Protestantism
Full-time ministry drains too many clergy and church budgets. Part-time pastors can help.
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — March 14, 2024
(RNS) — The happier, healthier future of ministry is in part-time clergy.
Can American congregations learn to embrace the uncoupled?
By Elizabeth E. Evans — February 15, 2024
(RNS) — Many American congregations tend to focus on traditional families, recollecting a mid-20th-century model for church growth or else simply as a model of what a Christian life should be.
Liturgy-hungry young Christians trade altar calls for Communion rails
By Kathryn Post — June 18, 2020
(RNS) — ‘Low’ or ‘free’ church Christians, raised on contemporary worship services with praise bands and dim lights, are seeking out ‘high church’ traditions replete with sacramental rituals and ancient liturgy.
Pete Buttigieg, Mainline Protestant
By Mark Silk — September 11, 2019
And when it comes to climate change, not in a good way.
Rhode Island Council of Churches director takes leave for gender transition
By Mark A. Kellner — May 15, 2018
(RNS) — The Rev. Donald Anderson, 70, executive minister of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, will take a three-month leave beginning June 1 to complete a transition from male to female.
In historic votes, Lutherans elect two African-American women bishops
By Mark A. Kellner — May 7, 2018
(RNS) — The votes mark an inclusive step forward for the 'most white' of the nation's mainline Protestant denominations, according to Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton.
Stop the presses! There’s a next generation for mainline Protestantism
By Mark Silk — September 8, 2017
White millennials find mainline Protestantism more to their liking than Catholicism or Evangelicalism.
In 2015, a more genuine faith (COMMENTARY)
By Tom Ehrich — January 6, 2015
(RNS) Expect these three movements of faith in 2015.
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