Articles by Lisa Cressman
Lisa Cressman is the Founding Steward of Backstory Preaching, an all-online ministry to help preachers develop their sermon development process and craft while integrating it with their spirituality. An Episcopal priest, spiritual director, speaker and retreat leader, she is the author of "Backstory Preaching: Integrating Life, Spirituality and Craft" (Liturgical Press, 2018). She can be reached at backstorypreacher@gmail.com.
by Lisa S. Kraske Cressman
In a lecture to new writers, Poet Mary Oliver stressed that getting published was not the author’s most important task; honing their craft was. She had not smelled, touched, or marveled enough at God’s wondrous creation to have something worthwhile to write until then. Preachers share roughly the same two tasks with poets: to marvel, and then to write. And to have marveled enough at God’s being and the divine gifts offered us is much more difficult than writing the sermon.
