Originally published in 1983, Fundamentals of Preaching has been a leading comprehensive textbook on preaching, guiding in the novice from the first steps of conceiving the sermon through the actual construction and delivery of it. In this new, revised form, it continues its outstanding qualities, with much input from recent homiletical studies and from the preaching of women.

Fundamentals of Preaching

John Killinger

Religion & Spirituality

Fortress Press

Exploring the Seasons : Mackinac Island

Destinations Press, Ltd.

This is the first of three parts of the sixth volume in a seven-volume collection - published between 1864 and 1890 - comprising Venetian and other northern Italian state papers relating to England. Translator and editor Rawdon Lubbock Brown (1806&#x2013;83) lived for many years in Venice, had unrivalled access to the Venetian archives and travelled widely to find documents in other Italian libraries and archives. He had previously published two volumes of Sebastian Giustinian's dispatches to Venice from Henry VIII's court (also reissued in this series). This first part of the sixth volume contains documents from the years 1555&#x2013;6, the early years of Mary I's reign, an important period for the Italian states when papal authority was reinstated in England and Mary married Philip of Spain - documented here by the correspondence of, among others, the papal legate Cardinal Pole. The editor's preface puts the various documents into historical context.

Jessie in the Smokies

Parson's Porch Books

In this sequel to Jessie in the Smokies, Jessie returns to life as a country music singer in Nashville, Tennessee, often called "the Vatican City of America" because of its numerous religious headquarters. Propelled into the spotlight by her plaintive voice and original songs, she issues a compelling call to righteousness and honesty on the religious scene. But this is soon met by staunch resistance from a number of highly placed church leaders. And when some of those leaders turn out to be underworld figures as well, Jessie's death is a foregone conclusion. She is killed during a Good Friday concert at the Grand Ole Opry. But, as it is with Jesus in the Gospel stories, this isn't the end of the narrative, for Jessie keeps a date for an extraordinary interview with a persistent reporter from one of Nashville's newspapers, and the entire city is electrified at the story of her return.

The Night Jessie Sang at the Opry

Between the Frying Pan and the Fire is an examination of vocational Orphanhood, a call to being an orphan, specifically of clergy who have made or are making a transition out of parish ministry into mainstream life. Definitions of vocation are themselves often distinguished by an affinity with the divine. Being between worlds, intermundia is synonymous with notions of Abyss and Void. Seen in this light, the dynamic images of intermundia, abyss, and Void are understood as that from which potentials might emanate and to which they might return. 
Our work, this piece on clergy in intermundia, is itself abyss, Void, intermundia, orphan, vagrant, foreigner/stranger, and alien, deconstructed in its own collapse, its own folding and unfolding. Utilizing a praxis of anamnesis, unforgetting, we deconstruct the deconstruction by approaching this piece Orphically. Through anamnesis, this deconstructive text of re-gard, which in effect is what we both are and do when we realize we are intermundia, re-calls for us the fact that we have forgotten we are ourselves Orphan: outlaw, pervert (thoroughly, entirely, to destruction turned around or turned the wrong way), vagrant, adventurer, hooligan, intermundianaut. 
Through a praxis of alchemical hermeneutics, this study researches phenomenologically seven members of the clergy who made the transition out of their respective calls to parish ministry to engage the world as part of the mainstream and find themselves between worlds, intermundia. From their portraits, this study moves into re-search through reflection upon their engagement with the numinous through a series of transference dialogues, extending beneath both the complexity of our knowledge and the knowledge of our complexity enfolded by fantasy and reverie. It is an attempt to process the material through an imaginal approach using an alchemical hermeneutic methodology. 
An epilogue offers a proposal for an interventionless approach to the intermundia of clergy transitioning out of parish ministry. It is hoped that through this study some transformation might occur. Engagement with this material offers an experience of an anamnestic shift occurring within our own psyches as the voice of the vocational Orphan makes itself heard within these pages. 
Finally, a look back-a regard-at and for the material, present thoughts, reflections and a forward gaze are presented in a new afterword.

Between the Frying Pan and the Fire: The Intermundia of Clergy Transitioning out of Parish Ministry

GIS Books