“Dwight L. Moody will preach on Sunday morning to a group of lumberjacks in upper Michigan. Martin Luther will preach on Sunday afternoon in a school-house in the mountains of Virginia. Charles Wesley ...

He’s 88 years old and technically retired. But Gardner C. Taylor still shows the preaching skills that have placed him on virtually every list of America’s greatest contemporary preachers. As a guest ...

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 ...

GOOD HOPE, Ala. — It’s one thing for a church in a big city like Dallas or Atlanta to tackle the ticklish topic of sex. It blends in with the urban scene. It’s another thing when a small-town ...

The art of public speaking is a special gift. In the anthology "Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History" (Norton & Co., 1997), New York Times columnist William Safire collects 200 of history’s ...

It’s been awhile, but I’ve gone to church on occasion. Sometimes I get a sermon inadvertently when I go to a funeral or to a wedding, when the preacherman sneaks in a sermon as a part of the ceremony.