11/23/2017 12:00 AM
Rachel Wrenn
In my last Working Preacher article, “How to Preach the News without Drowning,” I encouraged preachers to take a few minutes’ reflection …
11/21/2017 12:00 AM
Bruce Reyes-Chow
O Thanksgiving, how is it that every year you sneak up on us so quickly?
I would rather stick to preaching around the liturgical calendar and other congregational …
11/19/2017 6:59 PM
Karoline Lewis
Dear Working Preachers, Matthew has been a good homiletical companion this past year. Perhaps, the very Gospel we needed to preach for and into a world …
11/16/2017 12:00 AM
Matt Skinner
In the first article of this two-part series, the author discussed the apocalyptic tenor of the Gospel according to Mark and urged preachers to preach Mark …
11/14/2017 7:41 AM
Matt Skinner
Just in time. The Gospel according to Mark is about to arrive.
Perhaps, like me, you’re wondering how Mark will sound in the upcoming lectionary …
11/12/2017 2:41 PM
Karoline Lewis
It is really rather simple. What are you doing with what you have been given? The rub of the parable of course, is to determine with what you have been …
11/7/2017 12:00 AM
Danáe Ashley
Advent brings the sense of delighted expectation that Jesus, God’s own son and the one whom we follow, will be coming into the world. Images abound …
11/6/2017 12:06 PM
Karoline Lewis
“Hurry up and wait.” Whenever I talk to my mother these days, this somewhat new life circumstance is something she frequently mentions. There …
10/29/2017 9:35 PM
Karoline Lewis
As Year A, the year of the Gospel of Matthew, winds down, a revisiting of the Beatitudes seems appropriate, timely, even necessary. For those of you preaching …
10/22/2017 2:27 PM
Karoline Lewis
Dear Working Preachers, happy 500th Anniversary of the Reformation for some of you! And for others, happy 21st Sunday after Pentecost! Given those most …
10/17/2017 12:00 AM
Patricia Tull
The Bible’s sensitivity not only to the natural world but to economic justice for the lowly is truly remarkable, given Scripture’s origins during …
10/15/2017 3:48 PM
Karoline Lewis
I suspect that many of us might be a bit weary of Matthew by now. And to be honest, I thought I would be as well. But I have had a change of heart these …
10/12/2017 12:00 AM
Nathan Aaseng
I recall many years ago a national politician who was known for his awkward and contrived way of relating to audiences. A comedian spoofed this politician …
10/8/2017 9:05 PM
Karoline Lewis
A wedding guest without a worthy wardrobe results in being cast out of the party into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth? Clearly, …
10/5/2017 12:00 AM
Susan Chorley
I will never forget what it felt like to sit in a pew in a church as I was waiting for the service to begin, reading through the bulletin and seeing these …