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 ...

Of all John Wesley’s memorable lines, my favorite is from his April 2, 1739 journal entry, about having preached for the first time outside the confines of the pulpit: “At four in the afternoon I ...

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 ...

Why moral inspiration and doctrinal instruction fall short—and how preaching that transforms the heart achieves what both approaches seek. What do we mean when we talk about “good preaching”? Two ...

We all need to be good preachers. By good I mean persuasive but also conscientious, promoting good ideas, not bad ones. The last thing we want is a world full of persuasive preachers preaching bad ...