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.

"This is the Lord’s Table. It is not Grace Church’s table. All are welcome to receive communion.” It is not unusual to hear or read these or similar words—with the local parish or its denomination ...

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 ...

Holy communion is probably the second most used liturgy in the Book of Common Prayer, often at 8.00am, but also occasionally later in cathedrals and collegiate foundations, which sometimes shoehorn it ...

Sacramentality is the breath of Christian life—life that springs from the sacraments and life that yearns to return to them. My Presbyterian granddaughter hasn’t heard about 500 years of conflict over ...

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 ...

Communion has been a theological battleground for centuries. For today's working pastors, however, many of the issues surrounding Communion seem more practical than theological. They're often ...

Sacrament. To say that word in a worship service of many American congregations will likely draw a raised eyebrow or perplexed glance. But our worship is generally grounded deep within a sacramental ...

At a time when division and polarization have come to characterize civil society and even churches, the celebration of the Lord's Supper stands as a sign of unity: "Because there is one bread, we who ...