Postmodernism, with its critique of modern assumptions about knowledge, language, authority and narrative, presents new challenges for preachers. Postmodernity is generally seen as entailing a ...

For I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him as crucified (1 Cor. 2:2). The ancients built the tower of Babel to scale the parapets of heaven. Athens erected her altars to gods ...

It is that time again … this is an election year. For the next few months, we will be bombarded with political messages asking for our vote and predicting the collapse of our society if we vote for ...

The Passion narrative of St. Matthew begins in the 26th chapter. It starts with a subordinate clause linking our Lord’s suffering and death to his prior preaching. When Jesus finished all these words, ...

"If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all" (1 Corinthians 15:19). 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; Luke 8:1-3 Paul makes the resurrection the linchpin of his ...

Some social conflicts seem so deep and pervasive that they cannot be easily defined. During World War II, General De Gaulle described the confrontation between French Liberty and German National ...

Clergymen process during the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday outside the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, March 29, 2024. (OSV News/Gonzalo Fuentes) Good Friday begins in silence. The presider lies ...

Only about 200 people typically worship each Sunday at the Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, N.C., but as many as 40,000 others follow the service via Facebook livestream. That huge online ...