CLEVELAND, Ohio — At a Baptist church, you can never know with certainty where a minister will take you spiritually during his Sunday sermon. The best of them weaves stories that connect their ...

This sermon on how love conquers envy was part of a sermon series on how grace covers our shame. The remarkable response to Brené Brown’s TED Talks on shame is one indicator of how pervasive shame is.

And how do we use this sermon Style, with its great rhetorical potential, biblically? Textual preaching dominated the homiletical landscape in the latter half of the 1800s and the first half of the ...