hour. If a reformation is to come to the church, it must be preceded by a reformation of the pulpit. As the pulpit goes, so goes the church. The prophet Amos warned of a famine that would cover the land, a dearth of hearing the Word of the Lord (Amos 8:11). Theologian Walter Kaiser is among many who have declared the famine is now here, and has been here for some time: “The famine of the Word continues in massive proportions in most places in North America.”2 Indeed, we are living in such days of drought,