Matt talks to Julian DeShazier, pastor and hip-hop emcee J.Kwest, about being an artist-preacher, churches nurturing their youth’s talents, and the pastor as custodian.

Matt talks to Doug Pagitt, founder of Solomon’s Porch, about embracing contemporary culture, participatory approaches to preaching, and everyone acting like pastors.

Matt talks to Bill Borden, who teaches psychiatry at the University of Chicago, about transference, unintentional provocations, and Donald Winnicott’s wisdom for preachers.

Matt talks to Emily Scott, pastor of Saint Lydia's church in Brooklyn, about dinner table liturgy, the immediacy of homiletic dialogue, and writing sermons to elicit storytelling.

Matt talks to the Union Theological Seminary president about the church and Trump, "unending" sermon endings, and her book "Trauma and Grace."

Matt talks to the pastor of Hope CRC in Oak Forest, Illinois, about writing sermons as a person with ADD, being a theological outlier, and deep personal loss.

Matt talks to the chair of homiletics at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago about homiletical theory, teaching preaching as a preacher, and whether or not some students are "naturals."

Matt talks to the pastor of Riverside Church in Webster Groves, Missouri, about liberal-conservative distinctions, using failure well, and growing slower.

Matt talks to the senior minister of The Table UCC in La Mesa about being a black woman in a predominantly white congregation, owning guns and preaching against them, and the influence of standup comedy.

Matt talks to the senior minister of Tenth Church in Vancouver about Canadian evangelicalism, becoming a preacher, and swimming as sermon prep.