I want to talk this morning about preaching and what preaching is all about. My fantasy about what congregations think preaching is goes something like this: At the end of the sermon, the preacher ...

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 ...

It is that time again … this is an election year. For the next few months, we will be bombarded with political messages asking for our vote and predicting the collapse of our society if we vote for ...

I have been editing a book by an accomplished psychiatrist who had sought out my help to polish his manuscript. His magnum opus concerns sex addiction and pornography which are topics I had little ...

A SERMON is not “an op-ed for a newspaper”, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams has said. “You are not just there to comment on current affairs, and I am always rather wary when I hear a ...

Courage to Preach is no longer accepting new applications. The program has transitioned to a new summer intensive called Encountering the Word of God. Learn more here. A six-credit post-master's ...