Learn how to craft an engaging homily, and cultivate the study, prayer, and pastoral practices that will support you as work to feed the congregation on the Word of God. Deepen your appreciation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was in over my head and I knew it. During my senior year of college, I was called to pastor a rural congregation fifteen minutes off campus. My senior class friends were making the most of their ...

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 ...

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 ...