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 ...

The room is cherry red and the Rev. Donte McCutchen is on fire. Love Cathedral congregants are dressed in all white, hands held high, heads nodding vigorously, lips moving imperceptibly. We’re on the ...

Perhaps the most constant complaint heard from Catholic pews is about the poor quality of the preaching. Although saddening, it might also be a small consolation to know that such seems always to have ...

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 ...

Andrei Tkachev has become known for fiery sermons in which he says death in war is the best way to go. He's just one of many pro-war Russian Orthodox priests in a church that, according to one senior ...

A Christian preacher brought a legal battle against the police in the United Kingdom after he was told by authorities that he could no longer comment on other religions while he gave street sermons.

COVID-19’s ministry disruptions are generating lasting insights. The sanctuary was empty. But that didn’t distract Claude Alexander. He had just finished preaching from Jeremiah 8 on the temptation to ...

A Veterans Affairs chaplain was allegedly sanctioned for a sermon he gave at a veteran's hospital in Pennsylvania, which his lawyers argue is a violation of the First Amendment and the Religious ...

Vital Worship, Vital Preaching grants fund diverse projects for worshiping communities and teacher-scholars. The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) has awarded one-year grants to 62 ...

Jesus’ instruction on God’s unconditional love for everyone, good and evil alike, follows an equally radical call to nonviolence as a strategy for transforming a violent world. The ability to love an ...

Jesus no doubt was using a common saying when he told his disciples not to cast pearls before swine or that which is is holy to dogs. The contrast could not be greater: Pearls were precious, as in the ...

Photo by Gianna Bonello via Unsplash. (RNS) — Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-Eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape ...