Preacher | Teacher | Writer
Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon
Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry Duke Divinity School.
Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Dean of the Chapel at Duke University
Crisis Preaching for Barthians
You will likely not be surprised to hear that I have been talking again with the Crackers & Grape Juice crowd (specifically Jason and Johanna), this time about Karl Barth’s Homiletics book which emerged from his lectures on preaching during the Nazi rise to power in the early ’30s. We talk about the tension betweenContinue reading “Crisis Preaching for Barthians”
Reading Barth Together: Session IV
We had our fourth Reading Barth Together webinar this morning, talking through the third article of the Apostles Creed in Dogmatics in Outline. You can watch it here on my YouTube Channel. You can read the compiled questions here: –Will
Coronatide Resident Aliens
I appeared on the Just Us. podcast to talk about Resident Aliens. They describe this episode thusly: “It’s day __? of the pandemic, and the future is still very uncertain, giving many of us a great deal of anxiety. So we felt like everyone could use a bit of a break on this episode byContinue reading “Coronatide Resident Aliens”
“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.
