the tentmaker
daily thoughts on the common lectionary
About Me
- Name: the tentmaker
- Location: Sharpsburg, Georgia, United States
"...because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together — by trade they were tentmakers." Acts 18:3. Tentmaker is a title taken by bi-vocational pastors. As such, I am both a pastor and a project manager. I am a pastor of a local congregation of moderate, accepting and affirming people who worship in the Baptist tradition. We call our church "Hope Memorial Baptist" and we are about 40 in number. I am also a project manager of major construction projects for the State of Georgia. My home and church is in rural Coweta County, between Peachtree City and Newnan, with a mailing address of Sharpsburg, Georgia.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Preaching As Subversion
Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Semimnary, has this to say about preaching:
My thesis is that preaching is sub-version. You will recongnize the play that I intend. Preaching is never dominant version, never has been. It is always a sub-version, always a version, a rendering of reality that lives under the dominant version...[It is] a sub-version, because it does indeed intend to sub-vert the dominant version and to empower a community of sub-versives who are determined to practice their lives according to a different way of imagining.Deep Memory, Exuberant Hope Fortress Press, 2000.