During this election cycle, there’s a problem that deserves the spotlight. It is a subtle killer, an emotional pandemic. Political ads get votes with it. News outlets get viewers and profit. Pastors ...
Preachers are like comedians. They are always looking for new material. If the recent spate of articles on preachers plagiarizing in their sermons is any indication, the production of the weekly ...
Here it comes again, Christmas. In my opinion, it’s the best time of year. As a preacher of God’s Word, Christmas can be a challenging time of year for sermon development. This challenge is not ...
I’ve always wanted to know more about how biblical scholar Ellen Davis envisions the notion of the “prophetic interpreter,” which she discusses at the beginning of her 2014 book Biblical Prophecy. She ...
Could one build some sort of sturdy footbridge between, say, Frederick Douglass and Kanye West? Two new books, “Preaching With Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the ...