Hundreds of Christian clergy from throughout the U.S. and Canada are gathering this week in Minneapolis for the Festival of Homiletics, an annual conference aimed at improving preaching effectiveness.
The festival -- going on May 16-20 -- will be held at Central Lutheran Church, Gethsemane Episcopal Church, Wesley United Methodist Church, Westminster Presbyterian Church and other locations in Minneapolis. Most sessions will be held at Central Lutheran Church.
The goals of the festival include: Bringing together a wide variety of outstanding preachers and professors of homiletics; inspire a discourse about preaching, worship, and culture; engage issues related to church in the 21st century; engage theologically the practices of preaching and worship; and invite individual preachers to consider various styles and methodologies of preaching.
