Preacher | Teacher | Writer
Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon
Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity School.
Dean of the Chapel at Duke University (’84-’04)
Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church (’04-’08)
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A Visit to St. David’s Denton
It was great to visit St. David’s Denton last week. You’ll find the sermon and a discussion of Listeners Dare: Hearing God in the Sermon below. I hope you’ll enjoy these! Sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzX6VM9cd0k&t=82s Discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwq5DncxtLY
Don’t Look Back Webinars
I wrapped up a series of conversations on Don’t Look Back: Methodist Hope for What Comes Next with the folks at Crackers & Grape Juice a couple weeks ago. We talked through the major themes of the book, and ended with Q&A on how we Methodists might move forward through this moment of division inContinue reading “Don’t Look Back Webinars”
A Sermon at Shandon UMC
I’m proud of my student, Smoke Kanipe, and his ministerial leadership. Here’s a sermon I preached at Smoke’s Shandon UMC in Columbia, S.C. last Sunday. My assigned text was Philippians 4:1-4, the theme for Shandon’s stewardship emphasis. Hope you will find it helpful as you think about disagreement and dissension in the church.
“I feared boredom more than heresy. They said nasty things about Jesus. Nobody ever said he was dull.”
Will Willimon, Accidental preacher
One of Will’s most recent publications, a memoir entitled Accidental Preacher, recounts, with characteristic wit and humor, moments from his rich vocational life.
Beginning with his childhood in a segregated South, Will moves through story after story of a life spent responding to God’s constant call.
Peculiar Prophet 