I didn’t grow up with children’s sermons, and for my first five years of ministry, I never gave them much thought. In fact I’m not sure I’d even seen one done before. I had an idea of what they must ...

A few weeks ago, on the occasion of our church’s Children’s and Youth Sunday, I co-preached with a 10-year-old girl.

If the book doesn’t interest you, Walter Huffman told me, perhaps the story behind it will. With Valentine’s Day two days away, I’ll tell you about both. Huffman, 81, is a retired minister who served ...

A recently-ordained preacher in Chicago is going viral after wearing drag to lead a Bible study class with kids. The session took place December 13 at St Luke’s Lutheran Church on Logan Square. The ...

It can be tempting to respond to people’s harmful actions by denying their identity as Christians. We should resist this temptation. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, ...

Eureka First United Methodist Church Eureka (520 Del Norte St.): The Sunday worship service starts at 10 a.m. The Rev. Amy Beth Durward de Macias will present the sermon titled “The Heart of the ...

One day during the coffee hour after church I mentioned to someone that I enjoyed the fact that there were more children in worship than there used to be. “I think it’s important for them to be there, ...

“Now that I have preached about a dozen sermons I find I am repeating myself,” a young minister wrote despairingly in his diary in 1915. He was barely out of school and only a few months into his ...