Columnist
To Anna, and All 3rd Grade Existentialists:
Last week, on one of those hazy, hot summer days, [...]
Craft of Preaching
Videos
Preaching Moment 129: Karoline Lewis
Professor Karoline Lewis reflects on the importance of having the [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Desperate
Dear Working Preacher, Narrative time bombs. That’s what Eugene Peterson once described parables as, and I think [...]
Sermon Development
Preaching from a Manuscript is Not Heresy
I have a recurring nightmare in which I am in [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Your Most Important Sermon
Dear Working Preacher, Would you believe me if I told you that the sermon you [...]
Culture
The Inherent Moral Worth of a Pelican
One of the most poignant images to emerge from the [...]
Columnist
Changing Words
For the last few years, I’ve spent a lot of time talking. Sermons, funerals, Bible studies, Confirmation [...]
Theology and Interpretation
Sometimes “The Point” Is Beside The Point
I must confess a prejudice. [...]
Dear Working Preacher
More Than Good Advice [or] Why Jesus Gets Killed, Pt. 2
Dear Working Preacher, If there [...]