RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Preaching

What difference does the virtue of patience make for our ability to engage deeply in the practice of patience? And how does patience help us grasp the something more that is at the heart of preaching...

Preaching is best learned and improved when preachers receive excellent, supportive reflection on their lived experiences and sermons. For nearly ten years at Vanderbilt Divinity School a group of scholars...

Are you looking for a way to overhaul your communication style? Do you struggle to connect with people outside of church? Do you need more practice delivering hard truths? Or do you need more joy in...

Books on Catholic preaching from theological, biblical, rhetorical, and mechanical angles abound. This book is nothing like those. Using interviews with thirty-nine parish priests, Sigler exposes the...

Scott Bruzek has served the church faithfully for over three decades. In this volume his colleagues and former students honor him with a collection of sermons preached throughout the church year and...

Cordell Strug has always loved collages, those jumbled forms assembled from parts of other, usually more coherent, forms. During the pandemic, when everyone had time to meditate and entertain possibilities,...

"Into this new wave of homiletical insight comes a remarkable book by Eunjoo Mary Kim. Over against any notion of homiletical theory created in a cultural vacuum, Kim focuses with precision and insight...

As the complexity of our world increases exponentially, there is need for preachers to understand their identities and roles in this new reality and to navigate the landscape of the new challenges facing...

"I am a pastor. I preach. Doesn't that make me a pastoral preacher?" Not necessarily. Many preach missional rather than pastoral sermons designed to appeal to the unchurched, not the churched. The popularity...

Thirty-eight percent of pastors have given serious thought to leaving full-time ministry in the last year. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the unpredictable, never-done work of the ministry, is it...