Ordination is typically the final step in a long and often expensive process that includes dedicating one's life to ministry, completing a bachelor's and/or master's degree and fulfilling the ...

Luke Matthews is the only aspirant to ministry I’ve met who got his tattoos in prison. Incarcerated for arson and second-degree murder, he has spent much of the last two decades trying to figure out ...

I bet you thought the day would never come where you would be bonding two people together in holy matrimony. Well, that time has come and it’s not that simple. You have to become an ordained minister.

In life, they say that it’s our choices that define us and make us who we are. In September, Michael Overman was faced with a big one. As a candidate for ordination in the United Methodist Church, the ...

What this sometimes-contentious rite looks like in global Christianity. Ordination to Christian ministry is a conversation that continues to engage evangelical Christians. For some, it’s the debate ...

Earlier this year I attended an ordination service for a good friend. During the course of that worship service she went from being a faithful lay member of the United Church of Christ to an ordained ...