Religion

Three decades after the Danvers Statement articulated clear gender roles, its application still causes tension. Jo Dee Ahmann saw a problem in her church: another faltering startup ministry. And she believed she knew the solution: coaching.

The California pastor hopes to return to the small group of house churches he started last year. Less than a year after moving to Hong Kong, Francis Chan and his family have had their visas rejected and been forced to leave their fledgling house church ministry behind. Chan, known as a spirited . . .

Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury has had his Permission to Officiate reinstated. His PTO was withdrawn in June by the Bishop of Oxford surrounding the church's handling of the child sex abuse charges against John Smyth QC.