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Martin Copenhaver’s insightful “Handshake ritual” catches the preacher’s attention. The more I am in this business the more ambivalent I feel about the traditional ritual of greeting worshipers after ...

The most consistent comment that priests and deacons hear at the church door is “Good homily, Father” or “Appreciated your homily, Deacon.” What does that mean? Bishop Ken Untener, in his book ...

Good preaching requires mastery of rhetoric, in particular the tools of repetition and organization. “Otherwise, they’re not gonna remember,” says John Baldovin, S.J. “This is a no-brainer, but ...

United Church of Christ minister F. Russell Mitman transfigures the pulpit with his conviction that preaching is more than a seated activity within the walls of the local church. Because “there is one ...

The Second Vatican Council did not hesitate to emphasize the importance of preaching. Sometimes as Catholics we may downplay the role of good preaching. However, Ad Gentes, the conciliar document on ...

Church leaders and volunteers will soon have access to an artificial intelligence platform that aims to shave hours off their day-to-day tasks by generating content from sermons to engage fellow ...

What makes a sermon good? That has been a notoriously difficult question to answer. There are really only four kinds of sermons: biblically shallow and contextually irrelevant; biblically substantive ...

I waited each Sunday after I’d preached for my daughter, Nicola, then a teenager, to say those words. Sometimes she did, sometimes she didn’t. When she did, I felt heaven’s approval, or at least its ...

We all need to be good preachers. By good I mean persuasive but also conscientious, promoting good ideas, not bad ones. The last thing we want is a world full of persuasive preachers preaching bad ...