Book Review: The Gospel People Don’t Want to Hear: Preaching Challenging Messages
Book Reviews | January 22, 2023
By Laura Siriani The provocative title of Lisa Cressman’s book was intriguing for this deacon. Today, more than ever, we preachers are challenged to balance both courageous preaching and a…
Category: Inspirations & Thoughts
Book Review: Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit
Book Reviews |
By Sylvia Sweeney Few can dispute human beings are on the cusp of a new age the likes of which the world has never seen before. As a result, it…
Book Review: Toward an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology
Book Reviews | September 9, 2022
By Thomas Ni Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology. Gale Yee. Eugene, OR, Cascade Books: 2021. $27.00. Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology by…
Book Review: A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church
Book Reviews | September 8, 2022
By Kate Spelman A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church. Wilda C. Gafney. New York, Church Publishing: 2021. $36.95. Wilda C. Gafney’s monumental, multi-volume A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole…
Why I Give: Charles Cesaretti
Why I Give |
The future of The Episcopal Church is in our hands. The lay and clergy leadership of our Church is evolving to meet the many issues and challenges they will be…
Faculty Profile: Stephen Smith
Faculty Profile |
The Rev. Dr. Stephen Smith has a consistent record of providing leadership to Churches that face a multitude of challenges. He recently retired as rector of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church…
EPF: 35 Years of Preaching Excellence
Inspirations & Thoughts |
The 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church passed a resolution in July commemorating the 35th anniversary of the EPF and honoring founder Dr. A. Gary Shilling, commending his ongoing…
PEP Returns In-Person with 35th Celebration
Conferences |
By Peter Wild From across the United States and Canada, 46 seminarians, representing 13 seminaries and local formation programs, made their way to the EPF’s annual PEP Conference held the…
Lay Preachers Rock it at Roslyn for Inaugural Event
Conferences |
By Mariclair Partee Carlsen On the weekend of August 19-21, 36 participants from the six pilot dioceses participating in the EPF’s Lay Preacher Training Program (LPTI) gathered at the Roslyn…
Alum Profile: Peggy Lo
Faculty Profile |
By Edie Wakevainen Thanks to the Rev. Peggy Lo, a participant in the 2018 Preaching Excellence Program (PEP) for seminarians, for agreeing to share her biographical sketch and respond to…