Religion & Ethics Newsweekly’s Kim Lawton profiles famed preacher Gardner C. Taylor in this week’s full-text RNS article, linked above. Quote: “He almost single-handedly has elevated and made visible ...

Martin Copenhaver’s insightful “Handshake ritual” catches the preacher’s attention. The more I am in this business the more ambivalent I feel about the traditional ritual of greeting worshipers after ...

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching. E. M. Bounds A preacher reading about how to preach better can easily begin to feel ...

The sermons and writings of African-American preachers can help readers glimpse the triumphs and tragedies of the black community throughout history. Their words trace the journey from slavery, to ...

In reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s impact on our world, Kayla August examines the intersection of preaching, faith, and seeking justice. On the day we celebrate the Reverend Doctor Martin ...

FROM THE JEREMIADS OF THE Puritan divines to the mountain-striding rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr., Americans have been a people awash in a sea of sermons. Every Sunday more than 400,000 Christian ...

Always has been, always will be. Preaching is hard. Anyone who has ever sat with the Bible open, surrounded by commentaries, with a date circled on the calendar, knows what I mean. Words don’t jump to ...