In his book, "The Applause of Heaven," Max Lucado tells the following story about Europe in 1934. Hitler's plague of anti-Semitism was infecting the continent. Some would escape it. Some would die ...

In her book, "The Female Brain," Dr. Louann Brizendine, a clinical professor of psychiatry from the University of California-San Francisco, claims that the average woman speaks 20,000 words a day, ...

Growing up I was never a student of the Bible even though I grew up surrounded by the best kind of Christians there were; the love filled family kind. I believe I am now being constantly moved by the ...

Calvin chaplain Mary Hulst ’91 has written a book about preaching for both preachers and those in the pews. Its foundation is the two decades she has spent writing about sermons and actually writing ...

Remember the childhood rhyme, perhaps we all use to sing, stick and stones may break my bones, but words would never hurt? This rhyme was said to be taught to children to develop resilience in the ...

Bishop Michael Curry’s star turn at the royal wedding Saturday introduced (or reintroduced) the world to the power of preaching. For many Americans and Britons not that many decades past, listening to ...

(RNS) — The sermon, which capped his 30-year tenure as pastor of the Disciples of Christ church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, was unusually personal. RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — For his final sermon as ...