Dear Working Preacher
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Dear Working Preacher, If you were to ask your congregation this Sunday how many of them know [...]

Dear Working Preacher, If you were to ask your congregation this Sunday how many of them know [...]


In this essay, I want [...]

Every working preacher out there [...]

In my neighborhood book club, which I adore because we’re such a sweet, quirky, yearning mixed bag [...]

Matt talks about how we structure our sermons and provides [...]

Dear Working Preacher, Do you ever wonder if maybe, just maybe, doctrine is dead? Not dead in [...]

Actually, digging for nuggets of insight and tapping people on the shoulder (see last two columns) are [...]

This summer, the lectionary gives preachers a wonderful opportunity to explore the Hebrew Prophets in [...]

Barbara Lundblad talks about making the sermon “bodily present.”