Craft of Preaching

We gather in old and new ways, and in new and old ways, holding vigil [...]

You do not have to do it all. Did you hear that, Working Preachers? On this Palm/Passion [...]

I don’t spend much time preaching about Jesus’ miracles, for one simple reason: Jesus said not to [...]

“Smells are surer than sights or sounds to make your heartstrings crack,” writes Vladimir Nabokov.[i] Damn, is [...]

Let’s rename this story. The Prodigal Son? Doesn’t really work for me. Why? I am not that [...]

“A flower is relatively small,” Georgia O’Keeffe once wrote. “Everyone has many associations with a flower — [...]

One more year. That’s all I need. One more year. One more month. One more week. One [...]

I spent a week last month in Kisumu, Kenya, seven miles south of the equator on Lake [...]

“We need to be a community of love and belonging.” That’s my paraphrase of Jesus’ desire to [...]