(RNS) — While the Evangelical Covenant Church ... several mainline Protestant denominations have taken similar actions, including the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church, the Unitarian ...

Forty years ago, women were ordained for the first time as Episcopal priests at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia. It was an illegal ceremony that would alter the future of the ...

In the 40 years since, the Philadelphia 11 have taken varied paths. Merrill Bittner After ordination: in 1976, announced that she would “no longer affiliate myself with the Protestant Episcopal Church ...

With a vote Tuesday evening by its House of Deputies, the Episcopal Church ... marriages blessed by the church." And the wire service adds that: "Other mainline Protestant churches have struck ...