Craft of Preaching

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Dear Working Preacher
Hosanna and Heartache

Palm or Passion. What’s a preacher to do? Likely you have already made that decision, Working Preachers. [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
God and the Infinite Void

William Shatner—a.k.a. Captain Kirk from Star Trek and Denny Crane from Boston Legal—has been making [...]

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Sermon Development
Twenty Questions to Ask the Text

Although there are many different ways of reading the Bible, [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
In-Between Spaces

Dear Working Preacher, Thank you for all that you do to preach the gospel. Thank you for [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
To Till It and Keep It?

Though my primary vocation is teaching and learning about the biblical text, as you may remember from [...]

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Culture
The Lectionary Keeps the Score

What I remember most about Ash Wednesday 2020 was the [...]

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Worship
Poets as Preachers

Congregations love to sing the songs of our faith. But do we recognize this singing as proclaiming [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Reasons to Be Joyful

There are lots of mountains in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus is tempted by Satan on one [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
But I Say to You

“You have heard it said … but I say to you” is a homiletic all its own. [...]

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Sermon Development
Stories We Tell One Another

I recently finished work on an MFA in Creative Writing—that is, I graduated with a [...]