I have been thinking about the best preacher I ever heard. Not about the single best homily or sermon, but about the best and most consistent preaching I have encountered. When it comes to preaching, ...

FROM THE JEREMIADS OF THE Puritan divines to the mountain-striding rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr., Americans have been a people awash in a sea of sermons. Every Sunday more than 400,000 Christian ...

Senior pastor George Mason addresses the congregation during worship services Sunday at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas. Stewart F. House / Special Contributor George Mason led Wilshire Baptist ...

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 ...

A preacher's got to catch them early. A good message. Passionate delivery. A dash of humor doesn't hurt either. That's how you keep them in the pews. The secrets and skills of some of the nation's ...

Recent books on culturally distinct preaching challenge misconceptions and equip diverse pastors to better address a multiethnic world. In the mid-1980s, as a new believer fresh out of college, I ...

United Church of Christ minister F. Russell Mitman transfigures the pulpit with his conviction that preaching is more than a seated activity within the walls of the local church. Because “there is one ...

The Rev. Vashti McKenzie and the Rev. Ann Farrar Lightner-Fuller have quite a bit in common. They are black women, ministers and pastors of Baltimore-area African Methodist Episcopal congregations.

Think of the company he’s keeping: Fred Rogers, C.S. Lewis and President Jimmy Carter. Rev. John Odegard from Grace Lutheran Church in Mankato will preach on Sunday at 7:15 a.m. on a nationally ...