A study released this summer by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University indicates a 16-percent drop in participation in lay ministry training programs over ...

Gay McDaniel used to be a high school English instructor. Now that she's retired, she sometimes works with United Methodist lay people, helping them hone their sermon delivery skills. Last week at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 25—In the course of nearly 30 years of preaching, teaching and visiting at Grace Lutheran Church in Fremont, Maureen Pump has ...

Eighteen Presbyterian laypersons were recently authorized by the West Virginia Presbytery to conduct services and deliver sermons. They had completed a two-year course of study to become authorized ...

Fewer Roman Catholic clergy members and increasing numbers of Catholics living in the United States have led more Catholic colleges to offer distance-education programs to train their lay members to ...

The escalating mental health crisis of recent decades has brought increasing rates of addiction, suicide, and debilitating symptoms of depression and anxiety. In many places, there are insufficient ...

The Australian Catholic University's Center for Liturgy offered a training program for lay liturgical ministers of the Word in Nigeria. The program, delivered online, aims to equip participants with ...

WASHINGTON _ Amid all the hand-wringing over a shortage of priests and nuns, one frequently overlooked statistic may offer a glimpse of the future of ministry in America’s Catholic churches: More than ...

Apr. 25—In the course of nearly 30 years of preaching, teaching and visiting at Grace Lutheran Church in Fremont, Maureen Pump has been asked the question often: Did she want to be a pastor? "I can ...