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Dear Working Preacher, We’re at one of those junctures where the church calendar that we who lead congregations pay attention to collides with the “secular” calendar by which the rest of our people (and, most (...)

Discussion on texts for Second Sunday of Christmas (Jan. 5, 2014): (Gospel) John 1:(1-9), 10-18; (1st Reading) Jeremiah 31:7-14; Psalm 147:12-20; (2nd Reading) Ephesians 1:3-14.

I recently heard a preacher commenting on… “…the way we sometimes loathe ourselves and behave self-destructively. The way we hurt and wound one another, even the people we hold most dear, emotionally, spiritually or physically. (...)

Join Profs. Rolf Jacobson, Craig Koester, and Kathryn Schifferdecker for “I Love to Tell the Story,” a conversation on Year 4 of the narrative lectionary. This podcast covers texts for Dec. 15, 2013: Isaiah 55:1-11 (...)

Join Profs. Rolf Jacobson, Craig Koester, and Kathryn Schifferdecker for “I Love to Tell the Story,” a conversation on Year 4 of the narrative lectionary. This podcast covers texts for Dec. 8, 2013: Ezekiel 37:1-14 (...)

For those of us who snoozed through high school English class decades ago: A brief review of metaphors, and why we who read Scripture care about them. Bear with me. Metaphors (and similes, which employ (...)

Join Profs. Rolf Jacobson, Craig Koester, and Kathryn Schifferdecker for “I Love to Tell the Story,” a conversation on Year 4 of the narrative lectionary. This podcast covers texts for Nov. 10, 2013: Amos 1:1-2; (...)

When can we get to the future? Are we there yet? Few readers of Working Preacher advocate a “quick and easy” rapture for Christians, followed by massive devastations for others. But some parishioners, having imbibed (...)

Join Profs. Rolf Jacobson, Craig Koester, and Kathryn Schifferdecker for “I Love to Tell the Story,” a conversation on Year 4 of the narrative lectionary. This podcast covers texts for Oct. 20, 2013: 1 Samuel (...)

Join Profs. Rolf Jacobson, Craig Koester, and Kathryn Schifferdecker for “I Love to Tell the Story,” a conversation on Year 4 of the narrative lectionary. This podcast covers texts for Sept. 15, 2013: Genesis 21:1-3; (...)