Dear Working Preacher
Preaching with Humility and Compassion
“You Might Be Wrong”1 So said the sign over a [...]
Craft of Preaching
Dear Working Preacher
Weary Pilgrims in Exhausting Times
Dear Working Preacher, It’s been a long while since I’ve [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Seeing Our Neighbors
When I was in college, I studied abroad in a country where social and economic disparities were [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Life on the Other Side of Catastrophe
The paired Old Testament reading for this week sets us [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A Parable of Lost Chickens
As I write this, I’m sitting in the middle of a pile of boxes and [...]
Dear Working Preacher
No Turning Back
While I’m writing this post, “quiet quitting” is the Internet’s fascination and furor of the moment. As [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Be Present at Our Tables
Dear Working Preachers, What’s your hook this week? Will it be a clickbait styled one liner: Seduced [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Sabbath Healing, Sabbath Rest
Our texts for this week speak of healing—physical healing, spiritual healing, societal healing. I hope [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Following the Faithful One
“By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Our Caregiver God
In the semicontinuous lectionary this week, we see once again that the prophet Hosea knows his way [...]