Pestles, mortars and bowls are integrated into the surfaces of the Communion table, created by designer Giles Tettey Nartey specifically for preparing the West African staple dish fufu. Carved from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After 30 years of teaching Christian ethics, I decided that I needed to express myself in something besides words. I wanted a fresh start and a fresh form, something that would go beyond nostalgia, ...

Soon the table will be set, and all will be ready. This coming weekend, Christians across the globe will join together in breaking bread in an expression of unity and hope. For over 75 years, many ...

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 ...

There is no greater signal that evangelicals have long forgotten their roots than the disrepair into which the sacraments have fallen in our day. By way of reminder, we should note that the Second ...