A Catholic priest went viral for his sermon about “The Fate of Ophelia,” a song Taylor Swift wrote for her fiancé, Kansas ...

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 ...

John Wesley, the preacher who crisscrossed Britain in the 18th century on a never-ending sermon tour, arrived in Deptford in 1739. He was hardly off his horse before he was preaching to a crowd jammed ...

In a world beset by war, genocide, systemic discrimination, and climate catastrophe, we need good news. Donyelle McCray, who teaches homiletics at Yale Divinity School, offers the opportunity to hear ...

(RNS and NPR) — On any given Sunday, churchgoers settle into pews as a clergy person takes an ancient holy text and figures out what it has to say about our lives today. But how would worshippers feel ...

Athletes call it being “in the zone.” Psychologists describe it as a state of “flow.” Musicians say it’s like being “in the pocket.” It’s that transcendent moment when time seems to slow down for an ...

On any given Sunday, churchgoers settle into pews as a clergy person takes an ancient holy text and figures out what it has to say about our lives today. But how would worshippers feel if they found ...

Have more sermons become selfies? Are you hearing more homilies composed of anecdotes about the preacher himself and an increasingly familiar cast of his friends and family? This is unfortunate.

NASHVILLE (RNS) — Colleen Reese was ticked at her preacher. Listening to the minister’s sermon at Franklin Christian Church, south of Nashville, she took exception when he began to criticize parents ...