I know I can get a quick response if I preach to felt needs, but that doesn't mean I've preached successfully. Many years ago, during the Cold War, I traveled to Poland for several weeks of itinerant ...

In a world beset by war, genocide, systemic discrimination, and climate catastrophe, we need good news. Donyelle McCray, who teaches homiletics at Yale Divinity School, offers the opportunity to hear ...

And how do we use this sermon Style, with its great rhetorical potential, biblically? Textual preaching dominated the homiletical landscape in the latter half of the 1800s and the first half of the ...

On the Monday after preaching, as I think about what all of those words are doing now that they’re out in the world, my mind wanders to a scene from Marilynne Robinson’s novel Lila. The title ...