Dear Working Preacher
What Do These Stones Mean?
When I look at this week’s appointed lectionary texts, I have trouble seeing past all [...]
Craft of Preaching
Dear Working Preacher
Teaching, Fellowship, Breaking of Bread, and Prayers
Dear Working Preacher, Alleluia, Christ [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Tell the Rest of the Story
Dear Working Preachers, It seems every week there is a headline or a happening that [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Loss of Power
As a professor in 2023, the word “power” comes up a lot in my life, often in [...]
Dear Working Preacher
The Foundation of Christian Hope
Preaching on Easter Sunday is both a privilege and a [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Hosanna and Heartache
Palm or Passion. What’s a preacher to do? Likely you have already made that decision, Working Preachers. [...]
Dear Working Preacher
God and the Infinite Void
William Shatner—a.k.a. Captain Kirk from Star Trek and Denny Crane from Boston Legal—has been making [...]
Sermon Development
Twenty Questions to Ask the Text
Although there are many different ways of reading the Bible, [...]
Dear Working Preacher
In-Between Spaces
Dear Working Preacher, Thank you for all that you do to preach the gospel. Thank you for [...]
Dear Working Preacher
To Till It and Keep It?
Though my primary vocation is teaching and learning about the biblical text, as you may remember from [...]