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Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga claims preachers who read widely will most likely become better preachers. He argues that good reading generates delight, and the preacher who enters the world of delight goes with God. Good reading can also help tune the preacher’s ear for language—his primary tool. General reading can enlarge the preacher’s sympathies for people and situations that...

and what little food they can beg or buy. She tells of the sexual predators who see migrating girls as their natural prey (what else are they for?) and of kind-hearted local padres and residents who have little themselves, and yet give it to migrant strangers. Nazario offers no easy answers to the immigration challenge that the U.S. faces on its southern border, but her stellar journalism pretty much ensures that her readers will never again look at migrants in the same way. In recommending
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