Preaching is more than lecturing. It is more than exhortation. It brings Christ home to the hearts of men and confronts them with his living grace and power. It is not only that Christ is discussed—it ...

Jennifer Stempel, a Los Angeles-based writer, changed her approach to life after hearing a High Holy Days sermon at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills. Stempel was shul-hopping when the wife of a Temple ...

How the Trinity is reshaping my preaching. Like many young pastors, I spent my early years of ministry torturing audiences through endless experiments with my preaching. I had been to seminary, ...

Comedy writer Janet Leahy was working on an episode of “The Simpsons” a couple of years ago, when her rabbi asked her for three jokes to punch up his Rosh Hashanah sermon. With this year’s High Holy ...

(RNS) — On Thursday, the rabbi asked his congregants what they wanted to hear on the High Holy Days. This is not a posthumous mystery book by Harry Kemelman, as in the classic Rabbi Small series: ...

Your Eminences and Graces! Reverend rector, Father Leonid! Dear fathers, brothers, and sisters! I would like to sincerely congratulate all of you on the great feast of the Exaltation of the Precious, ...

Coming up with a different theme for a series of Holy Week sermons could tend to become a challenge, especially for the 25th time. That was the challenge facing Cliff Stewart, pastor of First Central ...