For centuries, American religious leaders have staked out positions around controversial issues affecting the country, from slavery to Prohibition to abortion to civil rights.

It was the first Sunday following the sermon heard around the world, when Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde became a viral phenomenon for “preaching truth to power” at the prayer service for the nation.

So when Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde went for the king, at the end of an interminable sermon on Tuesday morning in the National Cathedral, she was acting within an established tradition.

The disciples were sailing safe and secure on calm waters when a storm suddenly came out of nowhere. The ship filled with ...

The next day, having observed Whitefield preaching to the Kingswood tin miners, Wesley became persuaded of the necessity of "field preaching" as the means most likely to reach the great mass of people ...

Today’s feast, the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, marks the end of Christmastide, forty days after Christmas itself.

It was the kind of therapeutic and demon-exorcising sermon that a newly, nonconsecutively reelected President Donald John ...

Why moral inspiration and doctrinal instruction fall short—and how preaching that transforms the heart achieves what both approaches seek. What do we mean when we talk about “good preaching”?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Diocese of Washington, said Wednesday that she will continue to pray for President Donald Trump, hours after he lashed out at her ...

Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde responded to President Donald Trump's criticism of comments she made during her sermon at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday. On Trump's first full day of ...

Jesus had begun his ministry and was becoming famous in Galilee for his preaching and healing. So he was invited to preach in the synagogue at Nazareth. When he did so, he read scripture from ...