Practice does not, as we know, make perfect, necessarily. But practice does make one better. Preaching is no different than any other discipline in this regard. It is hard to be a young preacher. You ...

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Last April, Pope Francis ordained a group of 19 priests, urging the new clergymen to serve more than to rule their parishioners, and above all, not to bore them. “Let this be the nourishment of the ...

DETROIT — To be or not to be a good preacher: That is the question faced by seminaries that have rededicated themselves to forming priests who can awaken the Gospel in their congregation’s hearts — ...

As I was finishing Steven Waldman's book on religious liberty and a re-read of H. Richard Niebuhr's magnificent Christ and Culture, three books for review arrived at about the same time, all of them ...

On Dec. 16, as Catholic clergy were in the heart of their Advent preparations for Christmas and getting ready to mount the pulpit for one of their most important preaching opportunities of the year, ...

It seems that the penal substitutionary atonement is so well liked in part because it lends itself to some powerful preaching. But I think that alternative versions of the atonement preach well, too.

Editor's Note: Krish Kandiah, president of London School of Theology, recently did a point-counterpoint two-part blog series on why preaching is dead and why preaching lives. First, Kandiah give us ...