The stories, told in first person in front of a microphone, are layered between traditional church rituals — Communion, benediction — and less traditional ones, such as poetry readings ...

So, in both congregations we made “Sermon and Worship Comments” a standard part of the monthly elders meeting. But there was a problem: Many elders did not feel qualified to talk meaningfully about ...

c. 2004 Religion News Service HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ If the Rev. Timothy Rainey had his druthers, he would probably still be working as an editor at The ...

SHORT SERMONS FOR BOYS. Share full article. Jan. 7, 1888. ... Most boys and girls do not like sermons-- they say that they are too long for their highnesses. Perhaps they may like these short sermons.

Modern church mixes sermons with heart-thumping rock concerts. — -- Every Sunday, thousands of people gather in New York City to get in line for a church service that is full of hand-raising ...

India News: Make your sermon brief, seven to 10 minutes, otherwise people get tired, Bishop Percival Fernandes advises junior priests in his lectures.

In the East Midlands, 12 per cent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that sermons were outdated, but in Scotland the figure was six per cent, and in Yorkshire and Humberside, four per cent. When ...

God Almighty revealed to our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, the full story of Dhul-Qarnayn as it appeared in Greek history, and this is one of the miracles of the Qur’an. According ...

Thanks to Short of the Week for reposting this one. Intro from YouTube: "A young woman's secret rocks an isolated church community in this folk horror tale." The Sermon is both written and ...

A century later, sermons remain the core of worship. They also represent a curious literary genre. Like short stories, sermons have certain formal characteristics; unlike sonnets, they have no set ...

How does one go from being a newspaper editor to a Unitarian Universalist minister? Now-Rev. David Kraemer, for eight years the editor of the Ames (Iowa) Tribune, explains: "It's like Jack Kerouac ...

Why do we listen to sermons? Where did sermons come from in the tradition of the church and how has preaching managed to hang in there across 2,000 years that have seen so much change in so many other ...