Dear Working Preacher
Who Taught You How to Pray?
It’s a very personal, intimate thing, one’s prayer life. Getting started at praying is less [...]
Craft of Preaching
Dear Working Preacher
Now Is the Time
Be careful with this one, Dear Working Preachers. The story of Mary and Martha in Luke’s Gospel [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Just Ask
The Good Samaritan. The ubiquity of this passage in society and in our shared discourse is more [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Shake Off the Dust
For the first time in my life, this past week I was trolled on Facebook. To be [...]
Sermon Development
Preaching Tough Texts
There are some tough texts coming up in the lectionary. I’m thinking especially of the Hosea 1 [...]
Dear Working Preacher
‘But First…’
“But first.” Such an expedient and automatic answer, isn’t it? [...]
Theology and Interpretation
Greening Spaces
Mark A. Torgerson’s book Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry (Alban, 2012) offers numerous case studies of [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Freedom from Fear
Fear. I get it. That seems like the most reasonable response when it comes to witnessing about [...]
Theology and Interpretation
Preaching + Rural Life
I grew up on a small farm in Eastern North Dakota. In college, I felt a call [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Trinity Musings
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now” (John 16:12). [...]