Craft of Preaching

Dear Working Preacher
Love and Belonging

“We need to be a community of love and belonging.” That’s my paraphrase of Jesus’ desire to [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Filled With the Holy Spirit

The First Sunday in Lent. Are you anxious? Concerned? Disillusioned? All of the above? And [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Choose Your Lent

One week until Ash Wednesday, Dear Working Preachers. By now you have your Lenten theme chosen, sermons [...]

Columnist
Poking the Bear

We live in the age of the provocateur. We see this increasingly in our politicians and our [...]

Dear Working Preacher
No Ordinary Mountaintop

Mount Tabor is the site said to be the location of the Transfiguration of Jesus. I have [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Love Never Ends

“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It [...]

Columnist
Deity and Diet

Emphasis on food in many of this month’s readings underscores its centrality for human life both physical [...]

Dear Working Preacher
A Life-Changing Epiphany

I began this column sitting on a plane on my way to the Holy Land (not California). [...]

Culture
Hands and Feet of Christ? Overrated.

We’ve all heard the saying that we are supposed to [...]

Preaching Series
Sensing the Gospel: A Five-Part Series of Meditations for Lent

“We declare to you what [...]