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Steve Schlossberg

The Rev. Steve Schlossberg is rector of St. Matthew’s Church, Richmond, Virginia.

How to Preach Badly, Part Three

My earlier contributions explained what we should avoid if we want to preach badly and tackled the question of preparation for a bad sermon....

How To Preach Badly, Part Two

Part one gave an overview of good preaching, which I usually manage to avoid. Today we begin to set our sights on how to...

How to Preach Badly, Part One: Good Preaching

If what follows in this three-part series reads like a yet another knockoff of The Screwtape Letters, you’ve discovered my inspiration. Instead of speaking...

ACNA’s Scandals and Mine

Reading an article the other day about recent sexual abuse scandals in ACNA, I found myself enjoying it. I don’t know if an ugly...

I Hate That Hymn

The only thing complained about in church more often than the lousy sermon is the lousy music. Bad preaching we learn to begrudgingly tolerate...

An Insult to Reformed Theology

One of the things I learned in seminary is that Reformed theology and Catholic liturgy are incompatible. I happened to learn that at an...