Dear Working Preacher

Dear Working Preacher
How Long, O Lord?

I know it is the custom in this column to focus on the Gospel text, but this [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Unprecedented Warnings

This week I’ve found myself struggling to switch my voice from a local congregation in Flint, Michigan, [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Dirty Rotten Preaching Scoundrels

Once, when I was an M.Div. student, my teacher Beverly [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Lost and Found

Dear Working Preachers, it is good to be back. After five years, 1000 words a week, I [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Choose Life

This is one of those weeks when, after reading the Gospel lesson, you might feel like putting [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Hashtag VIP?

Here’s a headline that captured my attention: Stop working on your personal brand—you’re wasting your time.1 The [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Liberating Sabbath

Luke closely associates Jesus’ public ministry with both the sabbath and the synagogue, beginning already in Luke [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Jesus’ Ministry of Fire

If consensus exists around anything today in American society, it is that we are afflicted [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Sleeping with Makeup On

I read recently that Dolly Parton leaves her makeup on all night when she’s away from home. [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Poor Fool

This is one of those weeks when preachers find a text pretty easy to interpret but the [...]