Month: August 2016

Dear Working Preacher
Carrying The Cross

What does the cross mean to you? You kind of have to figure that out before you [...]

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Truthtelling in Watershed Moments

The words “crisis,” “unprecedented,” and “chaos” seem to be appearing [...]

Dear Working Preacher
God’s Pro Quo

My first reaction to the Gospel lesson this week was a movie memory: a scene from Silence [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Daughters of Abraham

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

Dear Working Preacher
Division Matters

Family division. Sadly, it doesn’t take much these days to procure a pointed argument between those with [...]

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I Don’t Do Magic

After a recent baptism at which I presided, a young girl asked me, very shyly, “How did [...]