Dear Working Preacher
No Ordinary Mountaintop
Mount Tabor is the site said to be the location of the Transfiguration of Jesus. I have [...]
Craft of Preaching
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 [...]
Columnist
The Genetic Gospel
I had what I suppose most would consider a strange reaction to Karoline Lewis’ excellent article on [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Baptismal Epiphanies
When I was a parish pastor in a suburb of Atlanta, one of my tasks was worship [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A New Genesis
“In the beginning…” This is how to start your sermon, Working Preachers. It makes so much sense, [...]