Looking to 2026 and Beyond
For more than three decades, the Festival of Homiletics has brought together the finest preaching and cutting-edge thinking about homiletics, worship, church, and culture. After a successful 2025 conference, we are needing to listen and learn as we reimagine support for preaching in a changing world. As a result, there will be no conference in 2026.
History of the Festival
The Festival of Homiletics began in 1992 with a gathering of 400 pastors from around the country for the purpose of learning and conversing about preaching in a contemporary context. The Rev. David Howell, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, created the Festival as an extension of his preaching journal, Lectionary Homiletics. The Festival’s ownership, leadership, and planning efforts have resided with Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota since 2012.
