'How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry’

‘Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry’

By Beth Allison Barr

In this excerpt, Beth Allison Barr follows a mother and daughter who both participated in ministry, but only one worked formally as a pastor.

Learning to be with others as God is with us

Q&A with James Fawcett

Being With, a 10-week course based on the theology of the Rev. Dr. Sam Wells, models the message it seeks to impart.

What nosy congregants, purity culture and the ‘Billy Graham Rule’ have in common

By Victoria Atkinson White

Arcane mores in some faith-based institutions can limit women professionally and contribute to widespread loneliness, writes a director of grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

For all we’ve lost: A liturgy for George Floyd

By Cole Arthur Riley

As the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder approaches, an author and liturgist offers a promise of remembrance and a prayer for breath.

Pope Francis was a servant leader focused on the suffering of the people of God

Q&A with Peter Casarella

In his words and his gestures, Francis communicated the need for Christian unity and love, says an expert on the Latino presence in the U.S. Catholic Church.

Listening to people and investing in them as an act of radical service

By Valerie Schremp Hahn

Married pastors have transformed a vacant strip mall into a community development hub and base for needed services in a St. Louis suburb. New lectionary search tool Easily find Scripture passages and resources for any lectionary week with Zeteo’s new search feature. You can even filter by your preferred lectionary version: Revised Common, Catholic or Narrative.