Church polity has to do with visible elements like bishops or synods; it also relates to less obvious aspects of church life, like the rules around ordination, ...

While it rather successfully preserved one important aspect of church polity—the hierarchical and collegial relationship of apostolic authority—it did not address reform of the even more ...

The general principles of polity are clear, but not the details. This is one reason why questions of government have caused such deep and lasting divisions in the Church.

Like other mainline Protestant churches, the Presbyterian Church (USA), of which my congregation is a member, has experienced shrinkage and divisive controversy in recent decades. But one thing ...

Church polity experts cited in news reports could recall no parallel in 50 years of United Methodist history. ... The sudden passion for church discipline among political liberals is a surprise, ...

Regenerate church membership was a universal Christian doctrine. Ironically, the people today who promote it the most don’t know that.

HUDSONVILLE -- Leaders of the Protestant Reformed Church in America agreed clergy and those serving on congregations' governing bodies must send their children to denomination-affiliated schools.