Sometime in the late 1980s I was presenting a paper on my dissertation when I noticed that the most important person in postwar American preaching was sitting in the first row. I had the opportunity ...

We dare not be silent about injustices, if only we can see them as God does. Ernest Hemingway once commented about his craft, A writer's problem does not change. ... It is always how to write truly ...

"My dad used to say, 'I know what happened 2,000 years ago. I need to know how to live my life today.'" These words, from Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis, get to the heart of a new proposed ...

Christian funerals are increasingly secular. But how can Christians go quiet on the gospel at these of all moments?

(RNS) — The Rev. Susan Sparks, a minister and a professional comedian, uses humor in her sermons to help her American Baptist congregation in New York City consider ways to approach those with whom ...

Pope Francis during his general audience at St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday said all evangelizing activity depends on the Holy Spirit and not on “pastoral initiatives promoted by us.” Continuing his ...

Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape their Sunday services. At the other end of the ...

Lee University’s Board of Directors has unanimously voted to name the university’s new center for Pentecostal preaching in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Paul L. Walker. Dr. Paul L. Walker served as the ...

Presbyterian Church in America, an influential evangelical Christian denomination, gathered for a general assembly in Richmond from June 10-13. A factional divide largely over women's authority in the ...

The German Synodal Way has voted to adopt “implementation texts” related to same-sex blessings, lay preaching during Mass, and a request for Pope Francis to reexamine the discipline of priestly ...

The Rev. Fred Craddock, the pulpit giant who was “like no other preacher you have ever heard,” has died, his church announced. Craddock, who redefined the art of preaching, died Friday in Blue Ridge, ...