Anglican practices and rituals are primarily found in the Book of Common Prayer, the prayer book of Anglicanism, which helps define Anglican beliefs and worship practices on every level. The book is almost as important as the Bible itself to Anglicans. The Book of Common Prayer, which defines the “common”
The Baptist denomination is the largest free church denomination in the world with 43 million members. It is one of the largest Protestant Free Church denominations. More than 75 percent of all Baptists – about 33 million – live in America. There are about 216,000 Baptists in Great Britain, 850,000
The Catholic Church, known as the Roman Catholic Church, has well over one billion members, about one-sixth of the world’s population. It’s the world’s largest Christian denomination. It’s also the largest organized body of any world religion. Catholics are led by the Pope, also known as the Bishop of Rome,
Lutheranism is not a single entity. It is organized in autonomous regional or national churches. Globally, there are some 150 such Lutheran church bodies. Lutheranism is one of the largest Protestant denominations. It is also the oldest Protestant denomination. Lutheranism retains much of the tradition of the ancient and medieval
There are Methodist Churches in nearly every country in the world and global membership numbers about 70 million in 138 countries. The World Methodist Council (WMC), an association of churches in the Methodist tradition, comprises more than 40.5 million Methodists. There are at least 19 Wesleyan Methodist denominations in the
Because of some uninformed recent actions of the U.S. government’s Department of War in not classifying The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as “Christian” in its list of religious preferences (a mistake that has thankfully been at least partially rectified), the tired old mantra that Latter-day Saints are
A Mind Strangely Warmed By Stephen Rankin I love John Wesley’s journal entry of May 24, 1738 on his famous Aldersgate experience, which many of us recently commemorated. It just so happens, for us in the West, the event coincided with Pentecost this year. The convergence of these two events
In honor of Juneteenth, ELCA Racial Justice Ministries invited Dr. Denise Rector to share some thoughts about this federal holiday that many mark as the official end of legalized human enslavement in the United States. For more information on Juneteenth, visit What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY. Let’s take a trip
Thriving Campus Ministries Make New Disciples One of the issues with creating successful campus ministry is that, unlike in evangelical churches, there’s much less guidance available for Episcopal campus chaplains. “I wish I had the training to have a strategy,” said the Rev. Mary Catherine Young, associate rector of campus
Since the election of Pope Leo XIV, an Augustinian, there has been a happy increase in references to the thought of St. Augustine in papal preaching and teaching. As an avid reader of this fifth-century doctor of the Church (my doctoral work was based on a close reading of Augustine’s
Ecclesial Practices of Making Reparation In the first part of this three-part essay, we reviewed the rudiments of a Catholic theology of reparation. In the second part, we sketched out a history of anti-Black racism in the Catholic Church in the United States aiming at an honest accounting of our
Why the Old Testament? by Bill T. Arnold Every reader of the Bible is confronted with a question: “Since the Old Testament claims God revealed himself to ancient Israel and that he will reveal himself further in the future, what do I make of these theological claims?” Or to put