Dear Working Preacher
Advent Perception
What makes biblical preaching so powerful (and sometimes so controversial) is its capacity to reconfigure a congregation’s [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Dear Working Preacher
Advent Preparation
Too often John the Baptist is treated like a problem to solve. Preachers feel pressure to apologize [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Advent Attentiveness
I don’t know who first thought of it, but it’s a stroke of genius and spiritual insight [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A Holy Kingdom
Last Thursday I returned from leading a trip, the Women In Jesus’s Life, to Israel/Palestine—the Holy Land. [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Suffering Begone
One of my favorite recording artists is the singer-songwriter (and armchair theologian?) Josh Ritter. His music was [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Resurrection Perspective
Luke 20:27-38 comes in the narrative of Jesus’s final days in Jerusalem, where his ministry of bringing [...]
Dear Working Preacher
An Ever-present Help in Trouble
When last I wrote to you, I was wrangling chickens [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Preaching with Humility and Compassion
“You Might Be Wrong”1 So said the sign over a [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Weary Pilgrims in Exhausting Times
Dear Working Preacher, It’s been a long while since I’ve [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Seeing Our Neighbors
When I was in college, I studied abroad in a country where social and economic disparities were [...]