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Eugene H. Winkler
Eugene Winkler is a retired United Methodist pastor in Naperville, Illinois.
My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration
On September 4, 1957, nine African-American students walked through a seething mob to the front of Central Hi...
February 23, 2010
Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves: The Minister in Southern Fiction
In Martin Clark’s novel Plain Heathen Mischief, the Reverend Joel King has a problem that is ...
March 23, 2009
The Politics of Jesus
Like many of us, Obery Hendricks Jr....
January 22, 2007
Freedom Riders
The freedom riders have suffered from many misconceptions and distortions about their role in the civil rights struggle....
August 7, 2006
The Age of Anxiety
On June 1, 1950, when the United States was gripped by fears of nuclear war and treason, when demagoguery was being practiced on a sc...
October 31, 2005
Spirit and Flesh
If you want to understand how Christian conservatives think, act and interact, here is a balanced narrative combined wit...
March 21, 2005
A few good preachers
It has always been easy to romanticize a “golden age” of preaching. Clyde Fant contends that it’s always three generations ago....
January 24, 2005
Blood Done Sign My Name
On a summer day in 1970, ten-year-old Tim Tyson was playing with his neighborhood friend, Gerald Teel, when Gerald whispered to him, “Daddy and Roger and ...
November 1, 2004
Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
A good preacher should be able to teach in a right and orderly way . . . be able to speak well . . ....
May 31, 2004
In the thick of it
Many seminaries and pulpits are filled these days with “second-career” clergy....
May 3, 2004
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Politics in the Order of Salvation, by Theodore R. Weber
In his delightful, informative book about the Wesleyan movement in America, Charles Ferguson characterized Methodists as Organized to Beat the Devil....
September 19, 2003