A.J. Swoboda

Self-disclosure from the pulpit.

When the lights are off, the sermon is done, and everyone’s gone home, how do you handle the lows of preaching?

Preaching Jesus in a politically-charged climate.

Is there a place for heat in homiletics?

What if we stopped trying to rationalize God … and other people?

How do you deal with tainted spiritual heroes?

Both mission and the cross demand Christians who can graciously receive.

Donald Sterling, Cain and Abel, and you.

Moving away from an “oppressive” gospel.

Shepherding sometimes means loving discipline.

How prayer walks connect me to the tragedy and joys of my neighborhood.

Moving from false dichotomies to dialogue, for the sake of witness.

I’m learning to not begin with myself. To not begin where I am. To not begin with what I need to say. I’m learning to begin where the church is and where God is.

Can mystery heal a sick metaphor?

Is getting into other’s lives really all it’s cracked up to be?

Jesus saves us from sin, not from our diverse cultures.

Why worship and terror are leadership bedmates

Learning to Learn the Language of the Liberal City