Month: February 2016

Dear Working Preacher
Perspective Matters

Let’s rename this story. The Prodigal Son? Doesn’t really work for me. Why? I am not that [...]

Sermon Development
Preach Like an Artist

“A flower is relatively small,” Georgia O’Keeffe once wrote. “Everyone has many associations with a flower — [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Longing for More

One more year. That’s all I need. One more year. One more month. One more week. One [...]

tree in sunset
Columnist
Equatorial Creation Care

I spent a week last month in Kisumu, Kenya, seven miles south of the equator on Lake [...]

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 [...]