Hoping for Resurrection

I’ll be preaching in the National Cathedral service on Sunday, July 12 at 11:15am EST which will be streamed on their YouTube Channel and posted here afterwards. This will be my fourth sermon from the Cathedral pulpit. I follow my former student William Barber who preached there four Sundays ago. You’ll hear me begin my sermon,Continue reading “Hoping for Resurrection”

Sanctifying Racists in Recovery

Ministry Matters ran this excerpt today from my book Who Lynched Willie Earle?: Preaching to Confront Racism (Abingdon, 2017), taking the book’s subtitle for the article’s headline. I wrote, A white male (Paul Tillich), preaching to white males, preached a famous sermon: “You are Accepted,” as if unconditional acceptance were the core of the Good News.Continue reading “Sanctifying Racists in Recovery”