The Rev. Wade Griffith, pastor of the 560-member Liberty Crossings United Methodist Church in Birmingham, preached a sermon in 2013 called 'Is Homosexuality a Sin?' He concluded that it wasn't. (Photo ...

The following is a sermon prepared by Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Duke University, for the first Sunday of Lent. The readings are Genesis 9:8-17; Psalm 25:1-9; ...

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The liturgy of the fifth Sunday is based on the following readings: Job 7:1-4, 6-7; Psalm 147; 1Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23; Mark 1:29-39. The main theme of the readings is on man’s suffering. These ...

Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. For them, ...