Gay McDaniel used to be a high school English instructor. Now that she's retired, she sometimes works with United Methodist lay people, helping them hone their sermon delivery skills. Last week at ...

Recent decades in American preaching have attempted several routes to solve the problem of the dull sermon. Fred Craddock suggested we preach narratively. Don’t boil a biblical text down to abstract ...

“The study of Scripture and the love of theology can’t be limited to just one of the two genders.” Preparing a message of biblical exposition isn’t a task confined to one gender, even for ...

We called it the spring semester, but it felt like the dead of winter to me. The never-ending Chicago cold months slapped me in the face. I juggled my new schedule along my books, when I walked into ...