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How to Preach Badly, Part One: Good Preaching

By Steve Schlossberg If what follows in this three-part series reads like a yet another knockoff of The Screwtape Letters, you’ve discovered my inspiration. Instead of speaking for the devil, however, I am s... Read More...

A Tale of Two Sermons

By Calvin Lane For Martin Luther, preaching the “word” meant a living message. “It is a wonderful thing,” Luther wrote, “that the mouth of every pastor is the mouth of Christ.” In the Large Catechism (1529)... Read More...

Drawn into Beauty (with Peterson, Barron, and Augustine)

By Matt Boulter In a Covenant piece I wrote in 2018, I claimed that readers of this website should pay attention to Jordan Peterson because, among other reasons, he reminds us that “modern and contemporary ideologies, religious and secular, are in reality a... Read More...

An Insult to Reformed Theology

By Steve Schlossberg One of the things I learned in seminary is that Reformed theology and Catholic liturgy are incompatible. I happened to learn that at an ardently Anglo-Catholic seminary, but I’m fairly s... Read More...

Making lemonade out of RCL lemons: How to preach without ‘killing’ your congregation

Suggestions for coping with the Revised Common Lectionary.

Preaching and imagination

Few preachers manage a zinger every week, but too many seem content with mediocrity.

The hope and joy of peace

A Stewardship Lesson from an Unlikely Source

The Church’s Deafening Silence Amid Ethnic Cleansing of Armenians

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

A guide to the Covenant

A Stewardship Lesson from an Unlikely Source

The Church’s Deafening Silence Amid Ethnic Cleansing of Armenians

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

Frustration: Good for the Soul?

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

On the Necessity of Transparency in Title IV Proceedings

From the Archives: The Three Sacred Ministers: An Outmoded Concept? (1965)

Remembering Life’s Journey

From the Archives: Worship in an Era of Permanent Change

From Law to Grace: The Gospel in the Holy Eucharist

Jacob’s Ladder for Christians: A Meditation Upon the Seven Sacraments

Ascension song

A Stewardship Lesson from an Unlikely Source

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev

Trinity, Technocracy, and Grace: Thoughts Occasioned by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

How to Preach Badly, Part One: Good Preaching

A Tale of Two Sermons

Drawn into Beauty (with Peterson, Barron, and Augustine)

An Insult to Reformed Theology

Making lemonade out of RCL lemons: How to preach without ‘killing’ your congregation

Preaching and imagination

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