October 13, 2019, seemed like every other Sunday. And it was—until it wasn’t. My sermon that day on Genesis 1:27 unexpectedly made national headlines, changing my life, our church, and the ...

The sermon is where we tighten the focus on our congregation, on our situation. It’s where everything gets down to us. The pastors of the church I grew up in didn’t know much about worship. They ...

Every Monday morning of my 16 years of preaching, I’d slide open my filing cabinet to add another sermon manuscript to the archive. When I couldn’t stuff one more into the drawer, I’d take the stack ...

Martin Copenhaver’s insightful “Handshake ritual” catches the preacher’s attention. The more I am in this business the more ambivalent I feel about the traditional ritual of greeting worshipers after ...

Editor's note: Look for a sermon or lesson from Houston's diverse faiths every week in Belief. A number of years ago a beer commercial touted what was really a summary of the American ethic: "You only ...

I'm gonna do something new tonight. Maybe something that you're going to say at first is unethical, but I'm going to do it anyways. I'm gonna to plagiarize *** sermon, but it's *** game. Here's the ...

Thank you, President Bultman, for your gracious and generous introduction. Members of the Class of 2001, I consider it a distinct honor and a great privilege to be invited to address you, along with ...

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch has made advancing the Zionist cause a focal point of his work for more than 30 years at the forefront of Reform Judaism. A former IDF tank commander, Hirsch helped lead the push ...