Month: January 2016

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 [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Embodied Epiphanies

I love this miracle — not just because I live in Minnesota and wish I could perform [...]

Columnist
The Genetic Gospel

I had what I suppose most would consider a strange reaction to Karoline Lewis’ excellent article on [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Baptismal Epiphanies

When I was a parish pastor in a suburb of Atlanta, one of my tasks was worship [...]