Sermons do not need to be funny or entertaining, he said, even in an age in which many preachers wear wireless microphones and pace on brightly lit stages like stand-up comics.

As a rule, bad sermons tend to help people less than good sermons. And yet they keep coming. I have been preaching for 30 years now.

Two Vanderbilt University professors want to enrich Sunday mornings for churchgoers across the country by encouraging preachers to craft more compelling sermons. Divinity School professors John S ...

Fabricated and impersonal, too many Catholic preachers hide themselves, forgetting that personality matters in preaching.