***Several years ago William Willimon spoke in chapel here at Midwestern Seminary. Willimon was then Dean of the Chapel at Duke University and was already the most brilliant popularizer of Narrative Preaching. I find Willimon’s preaching style and particular brand of sarcasm-laced humor seducing, probably because it seems to derive organically from the Piedmont of […]

Narrative theology, the brainchild of the late Hans Frei (d. 1988) eventually gave birth to narrative preaching which has seemingly found a permanent and, at the moment, an exalted place among options available to 21rst century preachers to postmodern parishioners. Arguably, the trajectory of narrative thought traces back to canon criticism and figures like Brevard […]