I have recently been experimenting with a preaching method that is stretching me like nothing I've done before. To use a phrase from author Fred Lybrand, I have been "preaching on my feet." And this ...

I had been preaching for more than two decades, and I should have been at the top of my game. The church I served ran up to 1,500 on Sunday mornings, and the live telecast of our services covered a ...

Dear Abby: I’ve been in a relationship with a wonderful man for two years. He’s a minister. He and his late wife used to travel all over the world spreading the word. I’m from a less conservative, ...

Recent decades in American preaching have attempted several routes to solve the problem of the dull sermon. Fred Craddock suggested we preach narratively. Don’t boil a biblical text down to abstract ...

“Hi, my name is Average Christian, and I am bored in most church services because the preaching is boring.” So writes Michael Greiner on the blog “Preaching As War” in part one of a series of posts ...

Photo by Tania Malréchauffé, courtesy of Unsplash. “What’s happening today in American society is the label of Christian is being applied to forces that are really deeply unchristian and certainly ...

As a new teacher, I often did more preaching than teaching. Sometimes my preaching came in the form of “you can do it” speeches. Other times I lectured students about the work habits of successful ...

Recently I changed my entire sermon on a Sunday morning. This might not sound remarkable—I hear preachers do it all the time—but it was the first time I ever did it. It was horrifying. Thank God it ...

Pope Francis gives the homily during the ordination Mass for 19 new priests in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 26. In his homily, the pope told the new priests to make sure their homilies ...

When Emmanuel Baptist Church officials called to talk with the Rev. Herbert Miller II in November 2021 about becoming the church’s next pastor, Miller was in Flint, Mich., considering a run for mayor.