Athletes call it being “in the zone.” Psychologists describe it as a state of “flow.” Musicians say it’s like being “in the pocket.” It’s that transcendent moment when time seems to slow down for an ...

Kids do say the darndest things, and with decades of pulpit experience, the Rev. Joe McKeever has learned these revelatory remarks often happen just after church. In one case, a parent shared a ...

Preaching at the Areopagus, they laughed at him. Only a few were converted. Evangelically speaking, Paul’s famous sermon given before the good and the great of Athens was not all that successful.

A preacher who confined his work almost wholly to preaching, who held but three rectorships in the thirty-three years of his ministry, who took almost no part in any organization outside of his parish ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

About 200 students gathered on a on sidewalk in the middle of the University of North Texas campus to counter messages brought by the National Conference of Street Preachers, who for a second day in a ...

The preacher had to stand on a box so he could see over the pulpit. There Jakobe “Kobe” Cooper stood, sharply dressed in a white shirt, black bow tie, black pinstripe suit and black-and-white wing-tip ...

But pastors need inspiration, too. Just as musicians have their favorite songs, most preachers have an internal playlist of the most unforgettable sermons they’ve heard. And at the top of the playlist ...

I asked some of the nation’s best preachers to talk about the best sermon they ever heard. The pastors who responded know something about the power of the spoken word. All three are homiletic ...