Presbyterian Mission Agency homiletics Archives

The first of three Beecher Lectures lays out four codes of preaching

Posted October 9th, 2024

The Rev. Dr. John McClure, an ordained minister in the PC(USA) who taught homiletics at both Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, is delivering three talks this week as part of the Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School.

A high risk, high reward endeavor

Posted August 17th, 2022

Those who attended the Synod of the Covenant’s Equipping Preachers recent webinar learned how well humor can work, even when it’s delivered from behind the pulpit.

Physically distant, but spiritually close

Posted February 24th, 2021

“We may be physically distant,” the Rev. Dr. Derrick McQueen said at the opening of a recent Facebook Live appearance with the Rev. Dr. Lee Hinson-Hasty, “but we’re always spiritually close.”

Grassroots home churches thrive in Rwanda

Posted May 6th, 2020

The Presbyterian Church in Rwanda opened its Center for Training and Documentation in 1996, two years after the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi.