On the first day of our introductory preaching course, my colleague presents a continuum. At one end is the view that the preacher has sole responsibility to make the gospel heard, to get Jesus to ...

Check the course schedule for future offerings of this course. This course, developed by Rev. Msgr. James Mongelluzzo, includes videos on the theology of marriage and on preparing a wedding homily, a ...

Beeson Divinity School at Samford University this week announced the creation of the Robert Smith Jr. Preaching Institute, named for its professor of Christian preaching. The institute will be funded ...

IPOH: The Perak State Islamic Religious Department (JAIPk) will reevaluate and develop more appropriate preaching course modules. In a statement issued on Friday (Aug 2), the state government said ...

The episcopal shutdown of public celebration of the Mass in the United States has put focus on what might be called “palliative pastoral care” to address the faithful’s inaccessibility to “the source ...

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 ...

A couple of years ago, a student in one of my preaching courses was struggling terribly. The sermons he preached in class were plodding, disorganized and weakly supported exegetically and ...

When I was a young adult, I sat in the pew at the funeral services of a close friend in my neighborhood. He had been shot in a robbery at the shoe store where he worked part-time. The loss was as ...

In the fall of 2019, I enrolled at Yale Divinity School, planning to audit four first-year courses for a book I was researching on the future of theological education. I completed three of my four ...

Today’s political landscape is full of quicksand, with media-generated crisis pursuing anyone who is in power or trying to stay in power. As major figures rise and fall, it seems all the more amazing ...

Check the course schedule for future offerings of this course. This course, developed by Rev. Msgr. James Mongelluzzo, includes videos on the theology of marriage and on preparing a wedding homily, a ...