Dear Working Preacher

Here’s the thing, Dear Working Preachers. We all know that Mark’s Gospel is the Reader’s Digest Condensed [...]

It’s no accident that Jesus’ rejection in his hometown synagogue immediately precedes the mission of the “twelve.” [...]

We preachers are intercalators. Maybe at some point in time, we learned to be so from Mark. [...]

Transitions matter. “On that day” — on what day, exactly? Inquiring minds want to know, Mark. Well, [...]

“The earth produces on its own.” Thank God, literally. Every once in a while Jesus gives us [...]

“Out of his mind.” That seems about right when it comes to perceptions of what we believe, [...]

This past week was the 26th Festival of Homiletics in Washington, D.C., “Preaching and Politics.” An appropriate [...]

Confession time — I am not a systematic theologian. So when it comes to saying something about [...]

Pentecost Sunday. A rather troubling misnomer, after all. Because even though we know in theory that the [...]