Craft of Preaching

Dear Working Preacher, A belated and blessed New Year and Epiphany to you. And thank you for [...]

To be truly and deeply loved is perhaps the most profound experience that all people long for, [...]

When Christians ponder the last leg of Advent and the arrival at Christmas, generally it’s Luke’s time [...]

What makes biblical preaching so powerful (and sometimes so controversial) is its capacity to reconfigure a congregation’s [...]

Too often John the Baptist is treated like a problem to solve. Preachers feel pressure to apologize [...]

I don’t know who first thought of it, but it’s a stroke of genius and spiritual insight [...]

Last Thursday I returned from leading a trip, the Women In Jesus’s Life, to Israel/Palestine—the Holy Land. [...]

One of my favorite recording artists is the singer-songwriter (and armchair theologian?) Josh Ritter. His music was [...]

Luke 20:27-38 comes in the narrative of Jesus’s final days in Jerusalem, where his ministry of bringing [...]