leadership

Leading with the Sermon by Will Willimon in the Working Preacher Books series.
Sermon Development
Leading with the Sermon

The sermon can do so many things, but how is it “the most important leadership activity of [...]

Climbers nearing peak of mountain
Dear Working Preacher
Leadership that Liberates

Have you wondered why the Bible keeps returning to criticize bad leaders and warn about [...]

Dear Working Preacher
The Stakes Are High

Everywhere we turn right now, the stakes are high. What a year! What a week! (And who [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Imagining Leadership

Isaiah 11 (December 8) imagines several qualities of wise leadership: wisdom and understanding, council (or strategic thinking) [...]

Theology and Interpretation
People Get It, but Need Leadership

I recently returned from a weekend in a large Presbyterian [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Caring for the Kingdom of Heaven

So, how are we doing taking care of that vineyard [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Daughters of Abraham

“Immediately, she stood up straight and began praising God.” I have a feeling that when this woman [...]

Columnist
Preaching Confirmation

One of my favorite confirmation texts is the story of Elisha succeeding Elijah in 2 Kings. The [...]

Columnist
Stories and Norm

For the first million years of human existence climate change was no threat, not because our ancestors [...]

Columnist
Mud and Metaphor

For those of us who snoozed through high school English class decades ago: A brief review of [...]