We all need to be good preachers. By good I mean persuasive but also conscientious, promoting good ideas, not bad ones. The last thing we want is a world full of persuasive preachers preaching bad ...

As a new teacher, I often did more preaching than teaching. Sometimes my preaching came in the form of “you can do it” speeches. Other times I lectured students about the work habits of successful ...

When I turned 16, I signed up for a driver's education class at my high school. We had hours of classroom education, hours of simulator training and a few scarce minutes of hands-on time behind the ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Whenever I stand before a congregation, I have to suppress my natural instinct to preach. We preachers have a tendency—some ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Puritan theologian William Perkins wrote that preaching "has four great principles: to read the text distinctly, from ...

Linda K. Wertheimer, a journalist and a former Boston Globe education editor who now teaches journalism at Boston University, is urging public schools to teach about the world’s religions. Her new ...

Sometime in the late 1980s I was presenting a paper on my dissertation when I noticed that the most important person in postwar American preaching was sitting in the first row. I had the opportunity ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The topic of health-care reform in the presidential campaign thus far has been notable for the brevity of the discussion about ...

After taking a virtual year because of COVID-19, Ozark Christian College’s Preaching-Teaching Convention observed its 75th year of in-person instruction this week. While teaching leadership and ...