Dear Working Preacher
Filled With the Holy Spirit
The First Sunday in Lent. Are you anxious? Concerned? Disillusioned? All of the above? And [...]
Craft of Preaching
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 [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Love Never Ends
“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It [...]
Columnist
Deity and Diet
Emphasis on food in many of this month’s readings underscores its centrality for human life both physical [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A Life-Changing Epiphany
I began this column sitting on a plane on my way to the Holy Land (not California). [...]
Culture
Hands and Feet of Christ? Overrated.
We’ve all heard the saying that we are supposed to [...]
Preaching Series
Sensing the Gospel: A Five-Part Series of Meditations for Lent
“We declare to you what [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Embodied Epiphanies
I love this miracle — not just because I live in Minnesota and wish I could perform [...]