Your preaching is not God’s work. You are God’s work. I received this vision in a peculiar way. As I was minding my own business leading a foundation that helped denominations start new churches, ...

According to one writer, John Calvin had a view of the role of preaching that could almost be called sacramental. What did Calvin believe theologically about the role of preaching, and how right was ...

The Rev. Bryan Massingale gives a sermon on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) ”We will never solve the ...

(See Mark 3:14-15, Matthew 4:12-17 and 13:1-52, Luke 4:14-29 and John 1:35-51.) The Third Luminous Mystery is quite expansive: “the call to conversion and the proclamation of the Kingdom.” All of ...

Christians approach the mystery of the Trinity with three assumptions. The first is that our faith is not based on reason but on revelation. God initiated a relationship with us that we respond to by ...

Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/Michael Hoyt) “I had the great privilege of never having a man formally teach me preaching,” boasts Manuel Williams about his ...

Today's Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus gained liturgical status in the late 17th century, but popular devotion existed before that for people who wanted more than doctrinal ideas about the ...

It’s amazing how St. Paul and his companions weathered all kinds of trials and challenges just to proclaim the Good News about Christ and our salvation. Even when he was mocked by non-believers, he ...

We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: And not for ours ...

This past Rosh Hashanah, I learned about a concept that seems to have been lost in our postmodernist understandings of religion and the Abrahamic God of the Bible in particular: God judges. This ...