Richard Lischer
Richard Lischer is currently a visiting professor of preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. His most recent book is Reading the Parables (Westminster John Knox).
Preaching in the promised land
After the Great Migration, some black preachers addressed the issues their white social-gospel counterparts avoided.
Poetry that bids us welcome
How is it that the poems of a 17th-century aristocrat still resonate with us?
Into the dark with Dante
Dante speaks to the uncertainties of every generation, to those who have awakened lost in an impenetrable darkness.
A memoir becomes explicitly Christian when it derives its literary power from the power of the gospel. It doesn't preach, it shows.
Before we can say that "earth to earth" is a good thing, we have to believe it's really going to happen—not just to others, but to us.
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