The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching By Tyler Been In March of 1933 Karl Barth delivered a lecture, “The First Commandment as Theological Axiom” (cited parenthetically hereafter). This lecture is fascinating for several of reasons. First, it i... Read More...
How to Preach Badly, Part Three By Steve Schlossberg My earlier contributions explained what we should avoid if we want to preach badly and tackled the question of preparation for a bad sermon. This part helps guide would-be bad preachers ... Read More...
How To Preach Badly, Part Two By Steve Schlossberg Part one gave an overview of good preaching, which I usually manage to avoid. Today we begin to set our sights on how to attain the goal of preaching badly. Here I focus on preparation, or avoiding it, both of which can be pathways to p... Read More...
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...
Prayer Drives Congregational Growth By John Deepak Sundara Kevin Martin’s recent article “Who Are We Missing?” highlights a valid sociological and theological commonality among some of the largest congregations in the Episcopal Church: they ar... Read More...
How the Pandemic Made Me a Better Preacher; or Learning from Richard Greenham Study. Pray. Have one point about the texts and get to it. Be winsome and authentic. Start the Creed. By Calvin Lane While I have no desire to add to the veritable avalanche of posts, essays, and podcasts about the Church and the pandemic, it has become cl... 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...
Preaching without Restrictions By Sam Keyes Coming back to the pulpit in a different church after a long hiatus can be a surreal experience. I’m sure I’m not the only one in this boat —I serve in a “diocese” after all where the vast major... Read More...
