By Jonathan Mitchican Let’s be honest: most sermons today are terrible. They are boring. They ramble. They sound like bad imitations of high-school book reports. Listening to a sermon today is often like listening to the teacher from the old Charlie Brown cartoons. We do not have good preachers because we have forgotten what preaching is for. Like a great cello player or … [Read more...] about Preach from the Soul
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$500,000 Lilly Grant to VTS
Adapted from a VTS announcementLilly Endowment Inc. has awarded $500,000 to Virginia Theological Seminary for “Deep Calls to Deep: A Program to Strengthen Episcopal Preaching.”“The task of preaching is central to the work of formation,” said the Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, dean and president of VTS. “This four-year program will create options for our graduates to grow, develop … [Read more...] about $500,000 Lilly Grant to VTS
Glory Has Not Departed
Review by Leander S. HardingHughes Oliphant Old is dean of the Institute for Reformed Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. He has over the course of a long and distinguished career been engaged in the project of documenting the preaching of the Scriptures in the Western Church. This volume treats the 20th century with an emphasis on the … [Read more...] about Glory Has Not Departed
The World in Small Boats
The Word in Small Boats Sermons from Oxford By Oliver O’Donovan. Eerdmans. Pp. xiii + 192. $18, paper. ISBN 978-0-8028-6453-6 Review by Michael Poon These “Sermons from Oxford” testify to the bold ways that Professor Oliver O’Donovan undertook his preaching and teaching ministries for over 30 years, from Toronto to Oxford, and now in Edinburgh. O’Donovan’s students, … [Read more...] about The World in Small Boats