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Karoline Lewis “Issues reach the pulpit before you do.” This statement by my dear friend Rev. Michael Brown, senior Pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in NYC, first came to mind when thinking about what you need to hear and what you might need to preach this week, Dear Working Preachers. On my first read of … Continue reading “Lost and Found”

Karoline Lewis A few years ago, I gave up on the idea of balance. Balance is a myth.1 It is simply not possible to keep the important things in your life in perfect balance every day, all the time. At the same time, maintaining balance has become another mark of achievement in ministry. “Look at … Continue reading “Being Faithful In Much”

Karoline Lewis Rock-a-my soul in the bosom of Abraham, Rock-a-my soul in the bosom of Abraham, Rock-a-my soul in the bosom of Abraham, Oh, rock-a-my soul. You know that old African American spiritual, right? Based on this passage from Luke. “Wait a minute,” you might be saying. “I didn’t hear any bosom talk in that … Continue reading “The Bosom Of Abraham”

Karoline Lewis One of the hardest things about being a teacher of preachers is that I don’t serve a church. I sometimes feel like I exist in a performative contradiction. Why would people pay attention to what I say about the biblical texts each and every week when I don’t preach each and every week? … Continue reading “The Increments of Faith”

Karoline Lewis See, return, praise, worship, give thanks, get up, and go. What if we imagined, if only for this week, that this could be the rhythm of faith? At the same time, it can’t be a universal prototype, because then it would not honor the unique witness of this text. It can’t be a … Continue reading “The Rhythms of Faith”

Working Preacher Listen to or download the podcast on preaching the U.S. presidential election. In the intro to this Sermon Brainwave special edition podcast, Rolf Jacobson states: “We are not going to tell people who to vote for, nor are we going to talk about politics per se, because we’re not experts; we are going … Continue reading “Preaching the Election: Special Edition podcast”

The conclusion of Revelation has seemed to many interpreters to be a bit choppy, a barely-held-together conglomeration of leftover pieces, stumbling toward the close of the book. Whether it is made more or less choppy by the piecemeal selection of verses in the lectionary, it is obvious that the lectionary has decided to omit the … Continue reading “Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 Commentary by Brian Peterson”

“Surely, I am coming soon.” Thus the New Testament draws to a close.  Do we believe it? Do we live as if Jesus’ return was imminent? That is, do we follow the story to the end and hold tightly to this last canonical promise? After so much time, many of us have lost hold of … Continue reading “Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 Commentary by Eric Barreto”

As Biblical scholar, I have a love-hate relationship with the lectionary. Its power, it seems to me, resides in the fact that we don’t get to cherry-pick the texts we want to read in liturgy. It forces us to read broadly within the canon, and often pairs together texts we may not have connected on … Continue reading “Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 Commentary by Micah D. Kiel”

In this book of so many visions, we arrive at the final vision; final not only because it is the last in this book, but final because here we see the ultimate goal to which God will bring the world. John gives us a more detailed presentation of the same city that he had glimpsed … Continue reading “Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5 Commentary by Brian Peterson”