Gregory Heille

Conversations with Benjamin

Preaching & Worship

“Spiritual director and preaching guru Martha Rapp tells the story of young Fr. Benjamin and his painful sense of burden, ineffectiveness, and self-doubt in the pulpit. Benjamin finds healing for his preacher’s dis-ease when he meets a divinely-sent teacher and embarks on a mountaintop experience of courageous trust in God, himself, and his people. He learns that preaching is a love story and an all-encompassing invitation to health and healing.”

Enflamed by the Sacramental Word

Preaching & Worship

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Holy Presence, Holy Preaching

“The Spirit always leads the faithful to the pueblo of the poor. This book tells the story of the living stones whom the powerful negate but who recognize themselves in Santa María Tonantzin Guadalupe. Where evil is legion, a poor brown, indigenous woman bears God’s Word and Spirit, rousing the pueblo to baptismal dignity and resistance and the Church to baptismal respect and synodality. This richly textured theology is a Mariology for our time.”

Preaching by Ear

Church Leadership & Ministry

“McClellan understands the embodied miracle of communication, in which speech reaches from the vocal chambers and mind of the speaker to the ear and interiority of the listener, heart speaking to heart. In the authenticity of his preaching life, he also knows the commitment of putting one’s whole life at the service of the Word. In his scholarship, Pastor McClellan has paid forward his understanding of the arts of rhetoric and his love of the preaching life to hundreds of preachers—and I am one of them. Like Cicero and Augustine, and with the clarity of seasoned insight, McClellan knows how to teach, to delight, to persuade.”

Qualitative Research, Second Edition

Church Leadership & Ministry

“As a DMin program director, I remain grateful for Tim Sensing’s indispensable book. Qualitative Research has become a proven reference guide to the research tools of practical theology that DMin students use to ask contextual questions about their ministry according to the academic standards of advanced ministerial education. This smartly updated second edition brings years of pastoral and teaching reflection to service in the church.”

The Preacher’s Guide to Suicide

Preaching & Worship

“The Preacher’s Guide to Suicide takes a thoroughly biblical approach to parsing the complex subject of suicide. While taking an articulate stand on several delicate aspects of this subject, the author encourages dialogue and allows for theological disagreement. What are Christians to make of an issue that impinges on so many lives, and how do we distinguish common cultural preconceptions from a proper Christian understanding of a good death in light of the cross?”

The Voice of the Bridegroom

Preaching & Worship

“Pastors who thrive in the priesthood often remark that they do so in the context of healthy, generative relationships with their parishioners. But when the pastoral honeymoon has passed, pastors can crash into depression and burnout. To keep priesthood alive, pastor-scholar Fr. Benjamin Roberts invites pastors to embrace their ecclesial espousal to the people. Over the long term of a lifegiving and generative pastorate, preaching can model Christ’s love incarnate in both priest and people.”