Postmodernism, with its critique of modern assumptions about knowledge, language, authority and narrative, presents new challenges for preachers. Postmodernity is generally seen as entailing a ...

“Who, having been called to be a preacher, would stoop to be a king?” The Puritan, Thomas Carlyle, said that, and all God’s preachers say, “Amen!” We preach Christ crucified … (1 Cor. 1:23) For what ...

For I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him as crucified (1 Cor. 2:2). The ancients built the tower of Babel to scale the parapets of heaven. Athens erected her altars to gods ...

At the entrance to Jerusalem’s Church of All Nations, next to the Garden of Gethsemane, there is a sign warning every visitor: NO EXPLANATIONS INSIDE THE CHURCH. This was intended to discourage ...

The Passion narrative of St. Matthew begins in the 26th chapter. It starts with a subordinate clause linking our Lord’s suffering and death to his prior preaching. When Jesus finished all these words, ...

Some social conflicts seem so deep and pervasive that they cannot be easily defined. During World War II, General De Gaulle described the confrontation between French Liberty and German National ...

Author’s note: I will be on the road during the coming week. Pencil Preaching will resume on Sunday, May 7. Thank you. Pat Marrin "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you ...

Popular preacher and Prophet, Peter Anamoh of the Machaira of the Pneuman Foundation says it is wrong for people to preach about the personality of Jesus Christ. Many Christian believers perceive ...

“We become like the things we contemplate,” the Rev. Hank Hilton says. In this homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), Year C, Hank draws on ancient ...

Palm Sunday 2019 is a day that Karen Cooke will look back on the rest of her life as a turning point. She is in her second year at Abilene Christian University’s Graduate School of Theology, where she ...