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 ...

It doesn’t make sense!” said my pastor friend. We were lingering over lunch and discussing the Bible conference I was conducting in his church. I’d just commented that the church was having a strong ...

(RNS) Top-notch preaching most attracts people looking for a new place to pray. That’s the conclusion of a new Pew Research Center study, released Tuesday (Aug. 23), which asked 5,000 people about ...

The similarities in the sermons are unmistakable. “I don’t think I’ve given you this before,” the pastor in North Carolina tells his congregation. He goes on to list “five selfs” that signify ...