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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...

an incident or insight or saying rises up from the page and begs to slip into one of my sermons. More on those nobler reasons later. In the summer of 2003 the pioneer edition of the Summer Seminars in Reading for Preaching brought twenty preachers to Calvin’s campus for four weeks. We read John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, following Ma Joad and her brood out to the central valley of California, a valley of fading dreams and of sinking hearts. We read Robert Caro on the Senate years of Lyndon
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