About this episode

Dr. Tripp Fuller discusses the challenges of preaching in today's climate with Leah Schade, focusing on the emotional toll on clergy and the importance of truth in sermons.

The volume of "I genuinely don't know what to preach anymore" emails landing from clergy has become its own data set. Pastors are not okay. So I did the only honest thing — I outsourced your questions to the one person whose books, research, and classroom hours have been training people for exactly this moment. Leah Schade is back on Homebrewed, and she has spent the better part of a decade surveying thousands of preachers about what it actually costs to stand up on Sunday and tell the truth. We talked about fear, the unity trap, the cut-flower problem in progressive preaching, the assessment tool that turns courage into context, and the very specific reasons your sermon last week left your stomach in knots. This is the conversation I would want sitting next to me on a Saturday night when the sermon will not come and the news will not stop. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube The Rev. Dr. Leah Schade is Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship at Lexington Theological Seminary. Her newest book, Preaching and Social Issues: Tools and Tactics for Empowering Your Prophetic Voice, is the practical, aggressively pragmatic follow-up to her 2019 Preaching in the Purple Zone…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Tripp Fuller

Guest: Leah Schade

Topics covered

• preaching
• clergy challenges
• truth in sermons
• progressive preaching
• fear in ministry
• social issues

Keywords

• preaching
• clergy
• truth
• fear
• progressive
• sermon
• social issues

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lexington Theological Seminary

Books & works: Preaching and Social Issues: Tools and Tactics for Empowering Your Prophetic Voice, Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide

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