Sustaining Preachers and Preaching

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Preaching may be a more counter-cultural activity than earlier generations found it; but it's all the more important to do it well and imaginatively. Here, in an attractive and accessible blend of theology and reflection on patterns of learning, we have a guide to the main issues that will be welcome to those in all denominations who are working to find effective ways - to borrow John Wesley's phrase - of 'offering Christ' to the people. -- Archbishop Rowan Williams. This is a page turner - sweeping us along with its energy, uncovering one layer after another, introducing us to one facet of truth after another. Yet it also stands as a work of reference, a text book, a vade mecum. Two seasoned preachers have laid bare their art and we can all feel inspired, encouraged, goaded, challenged by t heir work. -- The Rev the Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, Superintendent Minister of Wesley's Chapel in London. 'The book does go someway to replace the writing of Philips Brooks - and not before time!' Its [the book's] style is didactic and authoritative... there is much here to learn and much that could apply to less conventional settings that those envisaged by the authors. * Methodist Recorder * The book... will be useful for those who teach preachers and those responsible for providing refresher courses. * Theology Vol. 115 (No.1) * In Sustaining Preachers and Preaching, we are offered the carefully considered reflections and wisdom of two experienced Methodist preachers ... Although both authors speak from their own Methodist background, preachers (lay and ordained) of all denominations can find helpful guidance, encouragement and challenge in their insights. -- Anna Leyden, Liverpool * Anvil *