I never thought of myself as a pastor who shied away from hard topics. However, my eyes were opened wide to my lack of engagement across dividing lines when our church family made a four-mile move ...

With access to the most charismatic pastors and snappiest sermons via YouTube and podcasts, churchgoers’ standards are rising. . . . Full texts and outlines of sermons are available on websites like ...

“I like what Pope Francis said in ‘Evangelii Gaudium’ when he talked about preaching and likened it to family conversation; I try and imagine that I’m at a coffee shop talking to someone and I just ...

What makes a sermon good? That has been a notoriously difficult question to answer. There are really only four kinds of sermons: biblically shallow and contextually irrelevant; biblically substantive ...