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What makes a sermon good? That has been a notoriously difficult question to answer. There are really only four kinds of sermons: biblically shallow and contextually irrelevant; biblically substantive ...

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 ...

Preaching is one of the “light and momentary troubles” through which God is preparing for us “an eternal glory” (2 Cor. 4:17) ...

Good preaching requires mastery of rhetoric, in particular the tools of repetition and organization. “Otherwise, they’re not gonna remember,” says John Baldovin, S.J. “This is a no-brainer, but ...

United Church of Christ minister F. Russell Mitman transfigures the pulpit with his conviction that preaching is more than a seated activity within the walls of the local church. Because “there is one ...

A sacred Black church tradition rooted in Christ’s final words is evolving — embracing livestreams, diverse voices and modern interpretations that connect ancient scripture to today’s struggles for ...

(RNS) — In ‘A Will to Preach,’ one of the most effective preachers in the English-speaking world, according to a Baylor University survey, shows how a master craftsman approaches the task. (RNS) — ...

There are times when it is tempting to do memorial tributes, and I’ve not done so. Hardly a week goes by when someone, somewhere, with a connection to the life of faith and to religious practice more ...

I have been thinking about the best preacher I ever heard. Not about the single best homily or sermon, but about the best and most consistent preaching I have encountered. When it comes to preaching, ...

I met my good friend Sue Miller about 15 years ago, when we were both at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. This was several months after her first — best-selling — novel, The Good Mother, came ...