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When a sermon is not a sermon and God is in between the lines

May 5, 2017 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This column originally appeared in The Finger Lakes Times, as part of a weekly column, "Denim Spirit." But before that, it was a sermon (see post for 4/30/17). This is what a sermon looks like, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, Preaching, writing

On Preaching

January 14, 2016 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

Once, when going through a prolonged depression, I would mutter, “preaching is no job for a grown man (or woman).” Even when not depressed, I have at times quietly disparaged the profession I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Holiness, Pastoral Relationship, Preaching, Sacred

CHANGE

September 23, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

CHANGE For over a thousand years the Church has been a preservationist institution seeking to encase previous elements of its past - including architecture, worship, music, and doctrines - in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, New, Preaching

SHEPHERDNESS

July 17, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Link to Lectionary Texts for Proper 11B: http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp11_RCL.html If you are using the Jeremiah tract with Mark, which I am, then the unifier is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prep for Sermons Tagged With: leadership and management, Preaching, Proper 11B, Shepherds

FOUR

March 19, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

No gratuitous intimacy, please. It is highly debatable that there is ever a time for significant personal self-disclosure from the pulpit but if there is then no one should be left with any doubt … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Preacher as Gunslinger Tagged With: Intimacy in Preaching, Preaching, Public Intimacy, public self-disclosure

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NOMINATED FOR A PUSHCART PRIZE 2020 Unsolicited Press (Portland, OR) chose "Cairn" among its many fine publications this year, as a nominee for one of the most respected literary awards in the … ...Read more

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