Homilethics

Homiletics and Ethics

Ethical preaching is in near-fatal decline. Unethical preaching, alive and well, is akin to the ear candy Hebrew scripture referred to as false prophecy. Homilethics is here to help reverse that. We hope you’ll become a part of the movement.

Preaching, Meet Ethics

Much that is called preaching in our time, and treated as such, isn’t preaching at all. The principal is similar to prayer in the sense that not everything called prayer is. Our concern is with celebrating the courageous preachers who preach ethically, whatever the cost, along with their sermons and calling on those who use preaching for their own, self – centered gains to cease and desist.

Has your preaching ever cost you anything?

Or even inconvenienced you?

If you answer, “No,” to either question, your preaching likely isn’t ethical in one or more ways.

Upper: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Born January 15, 1929. Assassinated April 4, 1968. Image in the public domain.

Center: Anne Hutchinson. Born 1591. Assassinated, August 1643. Illustration, “The Trial of Anne Hutchinson,” by Edwin Austin Abbey, in the public domain.

Lower: Archbishop Óscar Romero. Born August 15, 1917. Assassinated March 24, 1980. Image borrowed from wbur.org.

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