Whenever I visit a congregation and notice that communion is part of the liturgy, I get curious about the language that welcomes people to the meal. The bulletin often includes carefully worded ...

In pairs, small groups and one by one, people walked up to the cross outside Aldersgate United Methodist Church on Easter Sunday. There, they took Communion on the grassy hill overlooking North ...

If we have such an extravagant Savior, we should attempt to create a fuller meal. As I enter the sanctuary, I see the cloth-draped table near the podium. Communion Sunday! My heart lifts—and sinks.

While most Christians agree on the big issues — most importantly, on the divinity of Jesus — there’s still much that continues to separate Christian churches from one another. Practices and rituals.

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Lutherans and Methodists, comprising the nation’s two largest mainline Protestant churches, will share in the sacrament of Holy Communion under an interim agreement approved Thursday ...

Proposal to let non-Catholic spouses share the Eucharist goes before Rome’s theological watchdog on Thursday. For all the progress made toward bringing evangelicals and Catholics together, the notion ...

Soon the table will be set, and all will be ready. This coming weekend, Christians across the globe will join together in breaking bread in an expression of unity and hope. For over 75 years, many ...

After 30 years of teaching Christian ethics, I decided that I needed to express myself in something besides words. I wanted a fresh start and a fresh form, something that would go beyond nostalgia, ...

Until a few years ago, 298-year-old Donegal Presbyterian Church did not host a Heritage Sunday worship service. But a bus tour highlighting the history of three churches — Donegal, Derry Presbyterian ...

“What are you doing?” the nurse asked me from across the hospital cafeteria. He was grabbing a late lunch. I was asking the cafeteria staff for a spare hot dog bun. “Grabbing things for Communion,” I ...