Dear Working Preacher
Simultaneous Smells
“Smells are surer than sights or sounds to make your heartstrings crack,” writes Vladimir Nabokov.[i] Damn, is [...]
Craft of Preaching
Dear Working Preacher
Perspective Matters
Let’s rename this story. The Prodigal Son? Doesn’t really work for me. Why? I am not that [...]
Sermon Development
Preach Like an Artist
“A flower is relatively small,” Georgia O’Keeffe once wrote. “Everyone has many associations with a flower — [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Longing for More
One more year. That’s all I need. One more year. One more month. One more week. One [...]
Columnist
Equatorial Creation Care
I spent a week last month in Kisumu, Kenya, seven miles south of the equator on Lake [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Love and Belonging
“We need to be a community of love and belonging.” That’s my paraphrase of Jesus’ desire to [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Filled With the Holy Spirit
The First Sunday in Lent. Are you anxious? Concerned? Disillusioned? All of the above? And [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Choose Your Lent
One week until Ash Wednesday, Dear Working Preachers. By now you have your Lenten theme chosen, sermons [...]
Columnist
Poking the Bear
We live in the age of the provocateur. We see this increasingly in our politicians and our [...]
Dear Working Preacher
No Ordinary Mountaintop
Mount Tabor is the site said to be the location of the Transfiguration of Jesus. I have [...]