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Religion & Ethics Newsweekly’s Kim Lawton profiles famed preacher Gardner C. Taylor in this week’s full-text RNS article, linked above. Quote: “He almost single-handedly has elevated and made visible ...
He’s 88 years old and technically retired. But Gardner C. Taylor still shows the preaching skills that have placed him on virtually every list of America’s greatest contemporary preachers. As a guest ...
My familiarity with the preaching ministry comes from my years as a parish priest, college professor, and television producer. Each of these aspects of my ministry has provided the guidance and the ...
“The Romance of Preaching”! Under this title C. Silvester Horne delivered one of the most brilliant and inspiring series of all the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale. Speaking in 1914, a few months ...
Always has been, always will be. Preaching is hard. Anyone who has ever sat with the Bible open, surrounded by commentaries, with a date circled on the calendar, knows what I mean. Words don’t jump to ...
“Between us and you a great chasm is established” (Luke 16:26). The parable in today’s Gospel is another of Jesus’ brilliant pleas to the Pharisees to recognize the inseparability of the great ...
That’s how Clynt Reddy S’17 describes the time his family moved to Minnesota from South Africa in 1996, just as the apartheid system was coming to a close. The family was Hindu until Reddy’s ...
GOOD HOPE, Ala. — It’s one thing for a church in a big city like Dallas or Atlanta to tackle the ticklish topic of sex. It blends in with the urban scene. It’s another thing when a small-town ...