Fifty-eight years ago, people in power condemned an Episcopal minister for addressing the president of the United States about a public policy issue during a sermon. The Rev. Cotesworth Pinckney Lewis ...

WTVF-NASHVILLE — William Brosend is Professor of New Testament and Preaching for the School of Theology at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He joins Ben Hall to discuss his book, ...

“If you remain in my word. You will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 11:15). Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Jn 8:31-42 Today’s first reading from the ...

There was a special buzz in the air at the Washington National Cathedral this past Sunday. It was the first Sunday following the sermon heard around the world, when Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde became a ...

A young man approached me after I'd preached on Mark 8:34 ("If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me"). I'd quoted Bonhoeffer: "When Jesus calls a man, ...

How we’re tempted to bend the Word to fit our words! It is a most devious temptation: to preach selectively, to avoid a lot of subjects, to slide by passages we don’t want to talk about, to manipulate ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. "It's a writer's job to tell the truth," John Updike once said in an interview. I think one might say the same thing about ...

In his daily Mass, Pope Francis cautioned Christians not to be overly-critical of those who preach the Gospel, emphasizing that focusing too much on personal precepts keeps us from being happy.

For us million or so run-of-the-mill Catholic Mass-goers in Britain, there have been plenty of bishops’ letters and other hellfire sermons about gay marriage to sit through of late. Since the argument ...

Only famous Bible stories get their own camp songs, and the trial of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar is one of them. The names are repeated no less than seven ...