Last week, in this column, I wrote of George Barna’s recent research that indicates just slightly more than a third of American pastors (and even fewer parishioners) have a biblical worldview. “What’s ...

Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. For them, ...

How to recover from your failures in the pulpit. One thing we can do if we sin during a sermon is offer a confession during the pauses. A simple “I’m sorry” in our hearts will suffice to bring us to a ...

Today’s Gospel appears to be a compilation of some of Jesus’ most trenchant sayings about the need to avoid sins that can cause soul-death. For Jesus, these were so serious that engaging in them was ...

The following is a sermon prepared by Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Duke University, for the first Sunday of Lent. The readings are Genesis 9:8-17; Psalm 25:1-9; ...

The Rev. Wade Griffith, pastor of the 560-member Liberty Crossings United Methodist Church in Birmingham, preached a sermon in 2013 called 'Is Homosexuality a Sin?' He concluded that it wasn't. (Photo ...

Anti-empathy arguments gained traction in the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term, with his flurry of executive orders that critics denounced as lacking empathy (AFP via Getty Images) ...