Sharon E. Watkins, a longtime leader of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), has received the nod as the 770,000-member church’s next president, which will make her the first female top ...

COMMENTARY: Baptism makes us missionary disciples in communion with God and each other. As children of God, we are sent out to give witness to God the Father’s love, God the Son’s saving work, and God ...

“There is much else that JESUS DID. If it were all to be recorded ... the world could not hold the books that would be written." John 21:25 Clarification: Rev. LuWanna Scott has not met nor worked ...

Despite all the talk of mainline decline, Teresa Hord Owens, the first woman of color to be the top executive of a mainline denomination, is not in survival mode. “The life that we will find is ...

When an Indianapolis-based Christian denomination joined more than a dozen religious and advocacy groups in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration regarding its immigration enforcement ...

"We don’t take this step lightly, but this extreme action from the federal government challenges a foundation of our faith and threatens to shatter our consecrated spaces," said Rev. Terri Hord Owens, ...

Photo by Jeff Baughan The Rev. Thad Allen, regional minister for West Virginia, Pennsylvania and parts of Maryland in the Disciples of Christ, stands near the altar of the prayer room at the First ...

Every Christian is called to be a missionary, sharing the good news of salvation in Christ and making disciples for him, not for oneself or one's clique of like-minded believers, Pope Francis said.

On the opening day of the US bishops' plenary assembly, Archbishop Christophe Pierre addressed the gathering, encouraging them to prioritize youth, the mission of evangelization, and Christ himself.

As far as Teresa Hord Owens is concerned, the Disciples of Christ Church has something really big to say. On July 9, the congregation overwhelmingly elected Owens general minister and president of the ...

The Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, Sister Mary Nirmala Joshi, said this week that, inspired by the example of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, “the Christian testimony needed today in ...

A small New York City church has sued Indianapolis-based Disciples Church Extension Fund after the nonprofit lender allegedly declined to release $7.3 million in loan funding advances for a proposed ...