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 ...

Back in jail chaplaincy days, I led seven interfaith services each week. These were very informal, of course, since they were held in locked cells, through steel bars, in courtyard cages made of ...

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.

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.

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 ...