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Health officials have an unsteady partner as they try to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19 in the Bible Belt: churches and pastors.

Leah Boyd represents a new generation of women in ministry, bringing a sense of humor and hope to theological debates.

JOSEPH RESSLER | Contributing Photographer Rev. Dr. Richard C. Bauer prepares for the procession out of the sanctuary, along with Rt. Rev. Dr. Audrey Scanlan, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, and Rev. Jennifer Mattson, of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, representing the clergy of the diocese, after his installation service at St. Edward’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster, Pa., on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. JOSEPH RESSLER | Contributing Photographer Rev. Dr. Richard C. Bauer offers Communion to the congregation of St. Edward’s Episcopal Church after being inducted a...

Derek Kubilus serves as vicar of Uniontown United Methodist Church in Uniontown, Ohion (Photo by Brian Koch) Derek Kubilus is no cookie-cutter United Methodist minister. He has the dynamic voice of a talk radio host, brings his two Great Pyrenees to Bible study, and calls himself “vicar” rather than “pastor.” Though he has historical and theological reasons for using that title, Kubilus acknowledges it’s also a way of standing out—a rhetorical bow tie. “Honestly, I just like to be different,” he said. Kubilus, leader of Uniontown United Methodist Church in U...

KENNESAW, Ga. — Two weeks after being kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention, Towne View Baptist Church celebrated its 32nd anniversary by formally accepting members the SBC believes they should have turned away.  One by one, Pastor Jim Conrad introduced seven new members, which in the Baptist tradition have to be approved by a majority of the congregation. He didn’t mention that Brockton Bates and his partner Skyler were gay nor that another new member was transgender. He didn’t have to. His church knew who they were accepting and had spent the last two years coming to terms wi...