Lucy Lind Hogan

A Gospel for All Ages

Preaching & Worship

“In a time of stark divisions, David Csinos challenges us to live into God’s vision of a church where all are one in Christ. For Paul, that division was Jew and Greek. Today it is often old and young. How then are we to worship with and preach to all ages? Csinos offers practical guidance from preachers and worship leaders around the world. This is needed now more than ever.”

From Earth’s Floor

Arts & Literature

“What happens when an award-winning mezzo-soprano turns her talents to poetry? You are drawn into words, images, and inspirations that take the reader soaring through flights of song. Marianna Busching offers us ‘luminous notes’ on the ‘life’s wonder.’ We just hope that it will be a while before she ‘kneels and sings / that last, most glorious / Agnus Dei.’”

Preaching and the Personal

Preaching & Worship

“People do not resist the call to the ministry because they are afraid they will have to prepare church budgets. No, like so many who went before them, they do not feel adequate to accept the responsibility of proclaiming God's word. I encourage all, from neophyte to seasoned preachers, to engage in this fascinating conversation. These preachers and scholars challenge us to reflect upon the crucial issues of identity and authority in the pulpit.”

Proclamation and Celebration

Preaching & Worship

“How can it be that preachers think they have nothing to add to the glorious good news at Christmas and Easter? Susan Hedahl challenges and encourages us to reflect upon the dramatic, lively doctrines that shape and inform our proclamations at the six major festivals of the church year. A return to doctrinal preaching will teach, will connect us with the cloud of witnesses who have gone before us, and will invite choice and action, not just 'aesthetic appreciation.' Hedahl’s approach will add depth and radical faith to festival sermons.”

Visions of Truth

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Mara Crabtree invites spiritual directors to explore the gift of artistic forms in their ministries with those seeking to explore and comprehend the presence of God in their lives. As a professor of preaching, I would suggest that this book should not be limited to spiritual directors. The work of teachers of preaching, and preachers themselves, will be deepened by her insights. How important it might prove to combine visio divina and lectio divina.”

We Have Heard That God Is with You

Preaching & Worship

“Rein Bos offers preachers an important model for thoughtfully and faithfully reading the Old Testament. After an excellent review of traditional approaches, Bos proposes a highly accessible hermeneutic for the twenty-first century. Preachers, theologians, and biblical scholars will find this to be an invaluable addendum for their exegetical and theological analyses of texts. Arguing that hermeneutics is not an antiquated approach, Bos reminds us that we all have a hermeneutical understanding. What he seeks to do in We Have Heard That God Is with You is to help us make that hermeneutic explicit and responsible for the age in which we live.”