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Adam J. Copeland taught at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was director of the Center for Stewardship Leaders until 2019. An ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA), he is editor of (...)

Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) with degrees from Yale University (BA) and Princeton (...)

Karoline M. Lewis is the Marbury E. Anderson Chair in Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN, where she has taught since 2007. Lewis is the author of A Lay Preacher’s Guide: How to Craft a (...)

An overview of the Narrative Lectionary Year 3, fall. Promises, promises Some preachers and worship leaders who follow the Narrative Lectionary (NL) have found it useful to divide the year into smaller units. The following (...)

In 2 Corinthians 5:13 Paul admits to madness: exestemen. This verse has perplexed scholars for generations. What follows is one attempt to make sense of it. I do so by placing it into the troubled (...)

First Corinthians 15 is a great way to open discussions about the historical shape of early Christian confession and faith. This Pauline letter is one of earliest writings in the New Testament, alongside his Thessalonian (...)

“They said nothing to nobody — they were afraid, you see.” That’s a fairly literal, inelegant English rendering of Mark 16:8. Could the evangelist have ended his Gospel like this? What kind of victor is (...)

Unvarnished and raw: that’s how Mark recounts Jesus’ death. More than any other evangelist, Mark drives the church into the heart of its gospel in all its horror and wonder. Every temptation to prettify it (...)

“ … A man ran up to Jesus.” That’s how the story starts. We do not know anything about him. Unlike Luke (18:18), Mark gives us no title, nor does he tell us anything about (...)

The confession at Caesarea Philippi marks one of the high points of Peter’s discipleship. Peter is the first human being to recognize Jesus as the Messiah. Mark tips his hand in his prologue when he (...)