Gay McDaniel used to be a high school English instructor. Now that she's retired, she sometimes works with United Methodist lay people, helping them hone their sermon delivery skills. Last week at ...

Recent decades in American preaching have attempted several routes to solve the problem of the dull sermon. Fred Craddock suggested we preach narratively. Don’t boil a biblical text down to abstract ...

SALISBURY — This year at Hood Theological Seminary, there will be a unique utilization of two professors teaching preaching and worship classes who are local pastors. The seminary will have two ...

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 Rev. Harry L. Kaufhold Jr. felt a calling to some type of full-time church-related work when he was just 17 years old. "I was a very shy person - very much intimidated to be in front of a group to ...

“The study of Scripture and the love of theology can’t be limited to just one of the two genders.” Preparing a message of biblical exposition isn’t a task confined to one gender, even for ...

Many surveys have asked Americans about their religious affiliations, beliefs and practices, including what religious group they belong to – if any – and how often they attend services at a church or ...