Author: Ben McDonald Coltvet

Culture
What Starbucks Taught Me About God

I was at Starbucks this morning, ordering a new creation. [...]

Culture
A Review: Thomas G. Long’s Accompany Them With Singing—The Christian Funeral

At a recent meeting of [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 109: Kenneth Samuel

Pastor Samuel delves into the challenge of preparing sermons in [...]

Dear Working Preacher
32 Words

Dear Working Preacher, Sometime during my theological education, I learned to be suspicious of the sermon series. [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 108: Brian McLaren

Brian talks about the weight and import of our preaching [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Preaching the Good Shepherd to Biblically Illiterate Sheep

Dear Working Preacher, I need [...]

Columnist
Mining Gold

Last month I admitted, perhaps reluctantly, that sometimes the job of a sermon is nothing more than [...]

Culture
A Review: The Promise of Despair by Andrew Root

The Foreboding Place of Promise [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Stillness and Silence in the Preaching Task

Spiritual writer Maggie Ross raises a relevant question for preaching: [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Peter and the Pursuit of Happiness

Dear Working Preacher, Do you ever wonder whether the reason [...]