Clear-Sighted Preaching This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here. By Sarah Cornwell I have worn glasses since I was 4 years old. Suffice it to say... Read More...
The Promise and Perils of Preaching Experience This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here. By Tim O’Malley I often hear two critiques of Roman Catholic preaching. The firs... Read More...
Good Moralistic Preaching This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here. By Elisabeth Rain Kincaid In the classic movie Footloose, Chicago teen Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon) sets out to free the town from ... Read More...
A Plea to the Preacher This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here. By Charlie Clauss I am thankful for the men and women called to pastor parishes ... Read More...
Papal Preaching and the Pandemic This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here. By Neil Dhingra Perhaps the most haunting photographs from this “Time of the Vir... Read More...
Preaching amidst Coronavirus This post continues a series of essays on preaching written by lay people. Other installments may be found here. By Hannah Matis A small lifetime ago — can it really have been only a month? — I was thinking of what advice on preaching a layperson could o... Read More...
No Other Story: Preaching as Catechesis This is the first in a series of essays on preaching written by lay people. By Caleb Congrove About five years ago, I wrote a little essay about preaching. That piece weighed in on a conversation that had... Read More...
Valuing the Vocation of Lay Ministers When someone asks me about priestly ordination, the underlying message is that the work that I am currently doing would be more valuable or whole if it were performed by a priest.
