Literary worlds centre on a gallery of characters situated in temporal and spatial contexts, in which other subjects and objects exist (Vosmar 1969, 89-101). More generally, within narrative theory it has been argued that humans fundamentally understand the world through narratives (Fludernik 1996; Herman 2004; Nielsen 2010: 173). As such, narratives can establish coherence between past and present (Polkinghorne 1988: 21). In this paper, we ask a number of questions related to the unfolding of a character gallery in contemporary Danish sermons: Which characters populate Danish sermons? How do pastors adapt these characters in their sermons? What does the encounter between characters tell us about preaching practices today?