Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March on Washington in 1963. Bettmann/Contributor via Getty images The name ...

From time to time the call comes: the Christian preacher should “get back to the Bible.” A major reason for the triviality of much of today’s preaching, it is said, is the modern preacher’s failure to ...

WASHINGTON _ The outgoing pastor of Sen. Barack Obama’s black megachurch in Chicago has come under fire for sermons that some have called racist, offensive, even dangerous. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s preaching used the power of language to interpret the gospel in the context of Black misery and Christian hope. He directed people to life-giving resources and spoke ...

I’ve always wanted to know more about how biblical scholar Ellen Davis envisions the notion of the “prophetic interpreter,” which she discusses at the beginning of her 2014 book Biblical Prophecy. She ...

"Anna gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem" (Luke 2:38). 1 John 2:12-17; Luke 2:36-40 We approach the end of the year with the image of an ...

In his song “Call It Stormy Monday,” T-Bone Walker laments how bad and sad each day of the week is. But when he gets to Sunday he says, “Sunday I go to church, then I kneel down and pray.” Walker’s ...

How we’re tempted to bend the Word to fit our words! It is a most devious temptation: to preach selectively, to avoid a lot of subjects, to slide by passages we don’t want to talk about, to manipulate ...

Retired U.K. pastor Clive Johnston will stand trial Wednesday for preaching a gospel sermon inside Northern Ireland's abortion buffer zone near Causeway Hospital in July 2024.

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The name Martin Luther King Jr. is iconic in the United States. President Barack Obama mentioned King in both his Democratic National Convention nomination acceptance and victory speeches in 2008, ...