Fred Craddock, who taught preaching and New Testament at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, died last Friday at the age of 86. Those of us who preach know his name well. It was ...

Beeson Divinity School at Samford University this week announced the creation of the Robert Smith Jr. Preaching Institute, named for its professor of Christian preaching. The institute will be funded ...

Check the course schedule for future offerings of this course. This course, developed by Rev. Msgr. James Mongelluzzo, includes videos on the theology of marriage and on preparing a wedding homily, a ...

Learn how to craft an engaging homily, and cultivate the study, prayer, and pastoral practices that will support you as work to feed the congregation on the Word of God. Deepen your appreciation of ...

On the first day of our introductory preaching course, my colleague presents a continuum. At one end is the view that the preacher has sole responsibility to make the gospel heard, to get Jesus to ...

In the fall of 2019, I enrolled at Yale Divinity School, planning to audit four first-year courses for a book I was researching on the future of theological education. I completed three of my four ...

The episcopal shutdown of public celebration of the Mass in the United States has put focus on what might be called “palliative pastoral care” to address the faithful’s inaccessibility to “the source ...

I was in over my head, and I knew it. During my senior year of college, I was called to pastor a rural congregation fifteen minutes off campus. My senior class friends were making the most of their ...

The fourth edition of the programme, which spanned five three-hour lectures as well as practical training, is part of the department’s effort to develop the awareness of staff imams and preachers to ...

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Today’s political landscape is full of quicksand, with media-generated crisis pursuing anyone who is in power or trying to stay in power. As major figures rise and fall, it seems all the more amazing ...