When it came time for David Buttrick to offer a sample of his distinctive method of preaching, he selected the Gospel Lesson for the...

Once again, John is faithful to the literary structure of a sign narrative. By now we expect some sort of need or lack to be stated at...

With the arrival of the Fourth Sunday in Lent, we encounter a Johannine sign for the first time in our forty day journey. Therefore, it...

This profound and detailed story follows upon a sequence of events that function in differing ways to shape the reader’s expectations as...

This article was researched by Kendall McCabe for Rev. Richard Eslinger's Commentary on Lent, Year A, in the New Proclamation series,...

Rev. Michael E. Connors, CSC, is the Director of the Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at the University of Notre Dame. In the...

Rev. Michael Connors, CSC, is the Director of the Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at the University of Notre Dame. In the...

Jesus did not shun the work of the dock, the dust of the field or the din of the marketplace. His preaching rang with references to the...

Can I Get an Amen?: A Survey of Homiletic Strategies that Engage the Listener This is the second in a series of five brief essays that...

Can I Get an Amen?: A Survey of Homiletic Strategies that Engage the Listener “Did you see that?” “Did you notice the look on his face?”...

First person preaching is an approach that takes one of the characters from the Bible, from Church History, from the communion of Saints...

In 1940, my Uncle Ray, a young Methodist pastor, was named interim pastor of a thriving community in Kansas, an assignment that usually...

This article was published in "Preach" Magazine, which alas, had a short publication run and no longer exists. Since there is no one to...

I had a brother who wasn’t from my family. We worked a ranch down by the border where the rain clouds aren’t ever seen. Ol’ Rocko got...

As we approach the Feast of the Transfiguration, it may serve us well to revisit “generic homilies.” Texts in multiple attestation...

During the pandemic, pastors who may have preached a dozen funeral homilies over the course of typical year, are now presiding over...

In “Preaching as a Social Act,” Don Wardlaw offers a homiletic schema that includes three over-lapping spheres: the world of the Bible,...

In 2013, Pope Francis spoke to the Holy See Diplomatic Corps, saying, “One of the titles of the Bishop of Rome is Pontiff-- that is, a...

God’s Word offers space to explore, not lessons to bore. Keeping an eye out for the three-dimension properties of a biblical text enables...