Preaching is generally associated with pulpits. A formal stand for your notes, and a platform from which you generally have a bit of a view, not to mention an advantage, over your audience. My family ...

Today’s faith audience seeks different messages from “what they’re told on Sunday morning in church and…on Friday night at the movies,” one producer says Ken Carpenter — a veteran director/producer of ...

Sept. 11, 2001, drove preachers of the Good News to tackle the classic questions of theodicy: If God exists, why is there evil? Why does God allow the barbarous destruction of innocent people? How can ...

At his Sunday Mass on the Solemnity of Christ the King, Pope Francis displayed the reliquary containing the bones of St. Peter to the crowd of pilgrims. Pope Francis venerates the relics of St. Peter ...

When the Rev. Roger Bauer arrives to preach on a Sunday, worshipers at Immanuel Lutheran Church might hear him before they see him. Or rather they might hear his blue 2005 Harley-Davidson Road King, ...

The two miracles in this Gospel passage are so tightly woven together, we might think of them as a single miracle that leaps from the woman to the little girl through Jesus. Mark’s Gospel, thought to ...

As the church commemorates the first wave of persecution and martyrdom of Christians under Nero in Rome, the Scriptures remind us that God has always been with believers in crisis. Even when God seems ...

In services for homeless people, the field in which I work, the current buzz phrase is trauma-informed care. The concept is simple, but its execution is demanding. It makes an acknowledgment of trauma ...

The poem by Edgar Guest, “Sermons We See,” explores how people live their lives and how everyday actions serve as sermons of our true nature and beliefs. The poem is a lesson in the power of our mind, ...

Bradley Hite shifted his weight from left foot to right, trying to psych himself up to talk about his faith. The 16-year-old, by his own admission, felt stupid standing at the corner of Broad and High ...