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So while Easter sermons are kind of variation on a theme, Christ’s resurrection is so unique and powerful that it doesn’t need to be refreshed each year, Sondrol said. During this Easter season, “my ...

This Easter Sunday, the holiest day of the Christian calendar, many pastors will start their sermons about the Resurrection of Jesus and weave in a pointed message about racism and bigotry, and the ...

Good preaching requires mastery of rhetoric, in particular the tools of repetition and organization. “Otherwise, they’re not gonna remember,” says John Baldovin, S.J. “This is a no-brainer, but ...

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On Easter, Scott Jones will attempt to give a sermon that prompts parishioners to think, to laugh and to cry. “To pause, to reconsider, to say I’m sorry and to change,” says Jones, pastor of ...

CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer The Rev. Dan Voigt of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Waterloo reads a passage from the Bible from the pulpit in the church sanctuary on Thursday.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Celebrating Easter, Pope Francis calls for end to wastefulness that causes world hunger, as hard-hit Greeks celebrate Easter with their traditional feast. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. Advertisement ...

BLOOMINGTON — Central Illinois congregations are preparing for their third Easter since the start of the pandemic — and the first since widespread vaccine availability and the end of state mask ...

The sign on the front lawn of the Church of the Presentation in Upper Saddle River announces it to all passersby: "Easter changes everything." The phrase, a reference to the W.B. Yeats poem "Easter ...