preaching

The preacher maintains a sacred conversation between God and the congregation.

To teach preaching, I need the witness of Tom Long—and others, too.

Preaching is an embodied act. Do women perform it differently from men?

Mary Clark Moschella recommends the best recently published books in her field.

The headlines spoke of nationalism and war. Barth proclaimed a living God who calls for repentance.

After the Great Migration, some black preachers addressed the issues their white social-gospel counterparts avoided.

My temptation to spurn the evangelical preacher slipped away when I opened this volume.

In our current political climate, the preacher struggles to say something both unifying and prophetic.

Mary Clark Moschella recommends the best recently published books in her field.

In Athens, the apostle bears witness—and doesn't try to be cool.

On Sunday, after a tragic week of race-related killings in Dallas, Minneapolis, and Baton Rouge, I took a seat in my white evangelical middle-class megachurch in central Pennsylvania. I didn’t know what to expect, but as the sermon began I found myself pleasantly surprised.

My pastor used his scheduled sermon on the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37) to address the issue of race in America.

This episode consists of some of our favorite moments from episodes 14-33, which aired during our second season in the winter and spring of 2016.

In response to our request for essays on the subject road, we received many compelling reflections. Here is a selection.

There's a subtext to lots of sermons I hear, and some I preach: Discomfort is avoidable. Here's my formula. It's the promise of all bogus religion.

This episode consists of some of our favorite moments from the first 12 episodes, which aired in the fall of 2015. Matt will be back with new interviews with preachers starting next week.

A preacher's nightmare is to be in front of an eager congregation and realize your notes are missing. No wonder one of my favorite Bible stories is about a clergyperson who's rendered speechless.

The Totentatz window was created soon after the Shoah but with no reference to the city's murdered Jews. Two of them were my grandparents.

Fleming Rutledge's magnum opus is many things: a look at the ways the death of Christ has been interpreted, an argument that the how of his death matters, and a protest against Christianity-light.