Luke A. Powery
Luke A. Powery is dean of the chapel and associate professor of the practice of homiletics at Duke University.
Isaiah invites us to remember our origins.
August 25, 2017
God builds “a house of prayer for all peoples.” All means all.
August 18, 2017
For this Sunday's Living by the Word column, I focused on the theme of hospitality in the reading from Romans. For my own sermon on this text, I almost went with the title "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"
August 25, 2014
While this is not the exuberant rhetorical surplus we find in 1 Corinthians 13, love is still Paul's guiding principle.
August 19, 2014
The church is still uncomfortable with human bodies. It does little to promote the rich connection between bodies and Christian spirituality. Paul uses "body" as a metaphor, and contemporary Christians do the same when we say "the body of Christ." This metaphorical usage generally takes precedence in the church’s practice.
August 18, 2014
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