Rev. Dr. Mark Charlie Charles is the Senior Pastor at Memorial United Methodist Church in Fernandina Beach.

In our conversation, we discussed his sermon preparation on holy days that come around every year, how preaching fits into the whole service, how he creates sacred space for all emotions while preaching, and some great book recommendations (and walk up songs).

Jenny Andison is the former area bishop of York-Credit Valley in the Diocese of Toronto and became Rector of St. Paul’s Bloor Street in 2021. Bishop Jenny was born in England and has lived in Pakistan, India, Singapore and Japan. She earned an Hons. BA from Queen’s University in 1994 and received her Master of Divinity from the University of Toronto (Wycliffe College) in 1997. In 2017, Wycliffe College honored the bishop with a Doctor of Divinity.

In our conversation, we discussed her sermon de-brief sessions, preaching with a new campus starting, and how important prayer is in preaching.

Dan Wunderlich is the Pastor at Lakeside United Methodist Church in Sanford, FL. In our conversation, we talk about his ritual of going to Starbucks before preaching on Sunday mornings, how he starts Advent earlier than the lectionary, how the practice of Improv has shaped his preaching, and the use of questions during the sermon.

It was a great conversation with some incredible insights. If you want to watch him preach his sermon about “Finding Faith in the Deep Water” you can find it here.

Karoline Lewis the Marbury E. Anderson Chair in Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN, where she has taught since 2007. In our conversation, we talk about listening to the Bible outloud, the performative nature of preaching, and the power/shadowside of images.

Karoline is the author of a number of books which you can find here. She is also the Program Director for the Festival of Homiletics where you can find more information here.

Jason Byassee is the Senior Minister at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. Before that, he was the Butler Chair and Full Professor of Homeletics and Biblical Hermeneutics at the Vancover School of Theology. We talk about feedback vs. feedforward, the first laugh, and the eruption of the real.

Jason is the author of many books, has his webiste here, and you can watch his sermon about Nadab and Abihu titled “Strange Fire” here.

James Howell is the Senior Pastor at Myers Park UMC in Charlotte. In our conversation. we talk about shedding love vs. making observations, preaching as a docent, and how important trust is when you are preaching.

James is the author of the book The Beauty of the Word: The Challenge and Wonder of Preaching and hosts a podcast titled “Maybe I’m Amazed”.

John Shughart is the pastor of Lena Vista UMC in Auburndale, Fl. In our conversation, we talk about how important it is to know where you are the history of a placer when you preach, preaching as “conceiving, bearing, and naming”, and how to preach on passages that have been preached so many times.

We have had a lot of conversation with many preachers last year, but now some of the best clips are put together for you to learn and enjoy. Season 2 with new preachers will be coming out son.,

Olu Brown is the Lead Pastor at Impact Church in Atlanta, Georgia. In our conversation, we talk about preaching in the midst of transitioning out of a church as a pastor, what Sunday Rehearsals look like at Impact Church, how to pivot in preaching when things in the greater community happen, and how preaching happens everywhere.

His newest book, Normalizing Next, can be found here.

Mike Conner is the Senior Pastor at First United Methodist Church of Pocatello, in Pocatello, Idaho. In this conversation, we talk about different Theological Worlds,” how Mike sits in the same text for multiple weeks at a time, how important funeral sermons are to him, and the best critique of all time “My God is not a pigeon.”