Dear Working Preacher

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Dear Working Preacher
Followed by the Lord of All

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

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Dear Working Preacher
Creeping Things, Innumerable

My friends, it is tick season here on the farm and so trips outside to [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Just Sit with Me

About once a month or so over morning coffee, I zoom with a former student who is [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
What Do These Stones Mean?

When I look at this week’s appointed lectionary texts, I have trouble seeing past all [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Teaching, Fellowship, Breaking of Bread, and Prayers

Dear Working Preacher, Alleluia, Christ [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Tell the Rest of the Story

Dear Working Preachers, It seems every week there is a headline or a happening that [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Loss of Power

As a professor in 2023, the word “power” comes up a lot in my life, often in [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
The Foundation of Christian Hope

Preaching on Easter Sunday is both a privilege and a [...]

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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 [...]