Nobody had to teach me that I should pray for my sermons. The first time I preached, with knees trembling and stomach fluttering, I knew that preaching was over my head. After all, I was standing ...

How can our sermons bridge the division of our contentious moment? As I was working out at a local gym, my attention was drawn to the TV that hung from the ceiling. News anchors I didn’t know from a ...

John Wesley had a portable pulpit. The immediate need was practical: he was short, and his pulpit elevated him so that he could be seen and heard. Perhaps more importantly, the portable pulpit turned ...

Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10; Ps 19: 1 Cor 12:12-30; Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21 The end of the year occasions look-back lists of noteworthy lives lost -- celebrities, artists, scientists, politicians and others who ...

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — For a liberal arts university focused on Christian values, Milligan University leaders said a chance to expand those values with a Center for Preaching fits right in with ...

The word that keeps coming back is hunger. Scholars talk about it, but so do preachers and parishioners. The reason that preaching is enjoying a revival in churches where it was a dying art, say ...

The Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome—a feast about a building—can intimidate preachers. The temptation? Mention it briefly and move on to the readings. But Sylvester Tan, S.J.