3/3/2017 8:43 AM
M. Craig Barnes
M. Craig Barnes shares how to preach in a cross-cultural congregation: "If the congregation itself is multicultural and you are the pastor of it, then you're …
2/26/2017 3:54 PM
Karoline Lewis
It is tempting to make Jesus’ temptation something that it is not. And, it is tempting to make Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness the only …
2/24/2017 11:47 AM
Andrew Foster Connors
Andrew Foster Connor, Senior Pastor of the Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Md., emphasizes on the importance of preaching and …
2/10/2017 3:07 PM
M. Craig Barnes
The Rev. M. Craig Barnes believes that preaching is a holy calling that a preacher responds to. "The best reason to be afraid is not that you are going …
2/9/2017 6:38 AM
Nathan Aaseng
There is supposedly an old Chinese curse that goes: “May you live in interesting times.”
We certainly live in interesting times, and it often …
2/3/2017 9:47 PM
Michael B. Curry
Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, gives advise to preachers who may feel discouraged to preach because of their inadequacies. No …
1/13/2017 3:10 PM
Otis Moss III
Dr. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said, "I think all of us should have prophetic proclivities. You may not see yourself …
1/10/2017 5:15 AM
John Hogenson
I have spent the better part of the last 35 years trying to become a better preacher. I would try to impress my homiletics professors and fellow seminary …
1/5/2017 8:58 PM
Mary Hinkle Shore
The star that led the sages to the Christ child was at once part of the natural world and a wonder. The weeks after the Epiphany call us to notice the wonder …
1/3/2017 5:27 AM
Rachel Wrenn
For this column today, I’d like to take the chance to introduce you to our Sixth Woman.
Anyone who knows me even slightly should already be raising …
12/30/2016 3:38 PM
Otis Moss III
Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said: "Frank Thomas said that sermons are born when there is a collision between life …
12/28/2016 5:29 AM
Kathryn M. Schifferdecker
“Preach the Gospel at all times, and if necessary, use words.”
This saying, attributed (apocryphally) to St. Francis, has become popular in …
12/27/2016 5:43 AM
Patricia Tull
The future of environmental well-being seemed hopeful last year to many in faith communities, with the publication of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato …
11/3/2016 2:08 PM
Rachel Wrenn
Anybody here feel like a bulldozer has run over you a few times lately?
If so, you’re probably in a context that’s dealing with the U.S. presidential …
10/13/2016 5:15 AM
Dirk G. Lange
This coming Reformation Day, October 31, 2016, is different from many others. On this day, we launch into the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation culminating …