Christmas will still afford the best opportunities for people to visit our churches, even if it is online. So what do we do when they come or watch? How can we connect them to Christ? I still believe ...

Photo by Tom Keldenich, courtesy of Unsplash. When Isaac-el Fernandes, S.J., delivers a homily he “won’t necessarily remember to say everything that I’ve written,” he says. “But what I will remember ...

What do we mean when we talk about “good preaching”? Two kinds of preaching predominate the American evangelical landscape today: the first we’ll call “moral preaching,” and the second we’ll call ...

The Rev. Harry L. Kaufhold Jr. felt a calling to some type of full-time church-related work when he was just 17 years old. "I was a very shy person - very much intimidated to be in front of a group to ...

Father John Unni preaches at St. Cecilia Parish in Boston. (Photo: America Media) “What keeps you and me knowingly, unknowingly, consciously, or unconsciously sad, because we’re possessed by what we ...

(RNS) — The Rev. Susan Sparks, a minister and a professional comedian, uses humor in her sermons to help her American Baptist congregation in New York City consider ways to approach those with whom ...

The word that keeps coming back is hunger. Scholars talk about it, but so do preachers and parishioners. The reason that preaching is enjoying a revival in churches where it was a dying art, say ...