(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) — ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — Not quite, writes an expert on Christian worship. Chatbots do not have human experience of love – and, above all, they lack a soul. (The Conversation) — When several hundred ...

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 ...

I waited each Sunday after I’d preached for my daughter, Nicola, then a teenager, to say those words. Sometimes she did, sometimes she didn’t. When she did, I felt heaven’s approval, or at least its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bishop Daryl S. Brister, pastor of Beacon Light Missionary Baptist Church in New Orleans, was working up a big appetite preaching at a recent revival meeting at St. John Freewill Baptist Church, an ...