Dear Working Preacher
Perspective Matters
Let’s rename this story. The Prodigal Son? Doesn’t really work for me. Why? I am not that [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Dear Working Preacher
Longing for More
One more year. That’s all I need. One more year. One more month. One more week. One [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A Life-Changing Epiphany
I began this column sitting on a plane on my way to the Holy Land (not California). [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Embodied Epiphanies
I love this miracle — not just because I live in Minnesota and wish I could perform [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Baptismal Epiphanies
When I was a parish pastor in a suburb of Atlanta, one of my tasks was worship [...]