sermons
What do Jews want to hear on the High Holy Days?
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 12, 2023
(RNS) — To my rabbinical colleagues, just when you thought you were done with your sermons.
Reclaiming the prophetic voice at Rosh Hashana
By Dov Linzer — September 1, 2023
(RNS) — This High Holy Day season, Jewish leaders need to address the issues of our day.
Meet the Christian creators designing chatbots ‘with a biblical worldview’
By Fiona André — July 20, 2023
(RNS) — Since its launch in November 2022 by the research laboratory OpenAI, the chatbot spurred excitement among Christians, forcing leadership to reckon with this technology and adapting their habits.
Virtual worshippers often satisfied, but more Americans choose in-person services
By Adelle M. Banks — June 2, 2023
(RNS) — ‘Broadly speaking, the survey finds that most Americans who watch religious services on screens are happy with them,’ Pew researchers found.
The Gospels can be grim. They aren’t about ‘resilience.’
By Amy Laura Hall — January 6, 2023
(RNS) — Preachers, please don’t.
Lessons of pandemic can endure, says editor of National Cathedral sermon compilation
By Adelle M. Banks — March 15, 2022
(RNS) — Editor of book of sermons preached during the pandemic at Washington National Cathedral: ‘People have been so isolated, alone, afraid. They just need to connect.’
As political violence rises, we need peacemakers at the polls
By Jennifer Butler — October 16, 2020
(RNS) — Pastors can't take a bloodless election for granted. But people of faith have unique power to keep the peace, now and in the long term.
Sabbatical cut short, megachurch pastor relished quiet, turns to pandemic
By Adelle M. Banks — April 8, 2020
(RNS) — The Rev. Howard-John Wesley, a Virginia pastor, said he’s no longer asking, ‘Oh God, what am I going to preach on Saturday?’
Alexa responds to minister’s sermon, orders toilet paper
By Erik Tryggestad — February 19, 2019
(The Christian Chronicle) — A sermon about the depersonalizing effect of technology became a case in point.
A preacher plumbs the art of the sermon by yielding the pulpit to passers-by
By Kayleigh Fongers — October 4, 2018
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) — A Michigan pastor has created 'The Preachers,' a performance art piece in which passers-by are encouraged to step up to a makeshift pulpit and preach for up to five minutes.
New website hopes to make sermons a vital part of life
By Mark A. Kellner — September 24, 2018
(RNS) — The leader of VitalSermons.com is 'listening for those nuggets of truth that are universal in the human condition,' pastor says.
Billy Graham drew less from Old Testament as years went by, new exhibit shows
By Menachem Wecker — August 14, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Poring over some 1,300 sermon notes from 'America’s pastor,' Museum of the Bible associate curator Anthony Schmidt has tracked Graham's evolution as a preacher from the Cold War into the 2000s.
Baylor survey names a dozen who can really preach
By Adelle M. Banks — May 1, 2018
(RNS) — Professors of homiletics picked the dozen — 11 men and one woman — from nearly 800 nominees.
‘Shocking’ news on worship and the public
By Martin E. Marty — May 3, 2017
We don’t expect religion to make shocking news unless there are sex or financial scandals in the world of the church, synagogue, etc. Add to that theological controversies over the beginning of things (think of headlines about evolution) or the end of things (think apocalypse, be it nuclear or otherwise). Yet whoever consistently sights the religious scene knows that worship is a hotly contested phenomenon among those who “practice” religion, or who are “observant.”
Some Protestant pastors preach on race but most leave it to others
By Adelle M. Banks — March 30, 2017
(RNS) A new LifeWay Research survey also finds that most pastors have not addressed economic inequities in their communities or joined a public lament about racial injustice.
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