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 had a portable pulpit. The immediate need was practical: he was short, and his pulpit elevated him so that he could be seen and heard. Perhaps more importantly, the portable pulpit turned ...

Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10; Ps 19: 1 Cor 12:12-30; Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21 The end of the year occasions look-back lists of noteworthy lives lost -- celebrities, artists, scientists, politicians and others who ...

The word that keeps coming back is hunger. Scholars talk about it, but so do preachers and parishioners. The reason that preaching is enjoying a revival in churches where it was a dying art, say ...