Texts for preaching: Spring books

Cover Story in the May 1, 2013 issue

We wondered what kind of reading ministers rely on for inspiration or help in preaching—apart from reading commentaries on scripture or other materials directly related to the task. Do they draw on certain authors of fiction or nonfiction? Are they influenced by essays, poetry, magazines or children’s literature? Here are some reflections:

Phil Waite

Ayanna Johnson

Katherine Willis Pershey

Elizabeth Myer Boulton

This article appears in the May 1, 2013 issue.

Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

by Wendell Berry