Month: February 2023

Tractor tilling field
Dear Working Preacher
To Till It and Keep It?

Though my primary vocation is teaching and learning about the biblical text, as you may remember from [...]

Woman in foggy landscape clutching sweater over mouth
Culture
The Lectionary Keeps the Score

What I remember most about Ash Wednesday 2020 was the [...]

Worship service with singers holding music
Worship
Poets as Preachers

Congregations love to sing the songs of our faith. But do we recognize this singing as proclaiming [...]

Ganglilonga Rock, Tanzania
Dear Working Preacher
Reasons to Be Joyful

There are lots of mountains in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus is tempted by Satan on one [...]

Women laying hands on woman wearing green shirt.
Dear Working Preacher
But I Say to You

“You have heard it said … but I say to you” is a homiletic all its own. [...]