The gospel message is the most important message ever to have the privilege of preaching. The reality of the gospel is the most compelling truth there is to communicate. What is so compelling and ...

When I carried this book into a gas-station diner I saw the waitress look at the title and roll her eyes. I turned the book over. But was I ashamed of the gospel? Well, of course not—so I turned its ...

(The Conversation) African-American 'folk' preachers blended homespun sermon and song to offer life lessons on how to survive in a world of inequality and virulent racism. (The Conversation) The first ...

There was another gun in a mall — and a school. Another young man, loved but painfully depressed, kills himself. There’s debt, death, pain, blindness, filth. It’s in our politics, culture, family life ...

Have more sermons become selfies? Are you hearing more homilies composed of anecdotes about the preacher himself and an increasingly familiar cast of his friends and family? This is unfortunate.

(RNS) — For the past five weeks, each Sunday’s sermon at Church of the Three Crosses has focused on a different song by Parton. CHICAGO (RNS) — She’s been hailed as a “secular country-pop saint” and ...

He then went on to question any preacher, primarily Joel, who refuse to preach the full Bible because they worried that it ...

Ellen DeGeneres announced via Twitter that she has uninvited gospel singer Kim Burrell from performing on her daytime talk show after video began circulating online of an anti-gay sermon Burrell ...

Gospel singer Kim Burrell apologized to the LGBTQ+ community for a homophobic sermon she delivered in 2016, in which she called homosexuality a “perversion.” “I want to apologize to the LGBTQ ...

The first truly African-American musical form, the “Spirituals,” took shape in the 17th and 18th centuries within the generations of slaves born into the tough American experience. Music was a daily ...