Author: Heidi Mann

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Preaching Series
Walking the Palm Sunday Path: A Lenten Sermon Series for 2026

During Lent, preachers help congregations [...]

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Culture
Sermon Development
Writing for the Ear, Preaching from the Heart

Making connections is at the center of preaching, according to [...]

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Sermon Development
Holy Lands, Holy Attention

For almost as long as people have called themselves “Christians,” they have undertaken pilgrimages to [...]

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Theology and Interpretation
Healing Beyond Bodily Transformation in Matthew’s Gospel

Matthew’s Gospel contains many stories [...]

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Culture
Preaching with the ‘Nones’ in the Room

I spent the first half [...]

The Gospel People Don't Want to Hear by Lisa Cressman, Working Preacher Books series
Culture
The Gospel People Don’t Want to Hear

Preachers need to “let the sky fall,” says Lisa Cressman, [...]

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Theology and Interpretation
Preaching Peculiar Passages of Scripture

Over the years, I have placed asterisks next to numerous [...]

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Culture
Preaching the Headlines

Preaching the Headlines is not actually about preaching on the headlines at all, but about determining what [...]

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Culture
Sermon Development
Preaching and Neurodiversity

Something changed in my preaching when my church installed a prayground up front in the [...]

Book cover: Honest to God Preaching by Brent A. Strawn
Theology and Interpretation
Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence

“We only know of Israel’s [...]