This issue begins with the words, “The preacher is dead.” But the truth is that a new kind of preaching is already being resurrected. These 30 sermons speak from a place of liberation, subversion, and everyday divinity. Let’s open our ears and listen.

• Regulars
• Editorial: The death of the preacher
  Aiden Enns 8
• Letters 10
• Sinner’s Corner: All steamed up
  Margot Starbuck 14
• Snakes & Ladders [comic]
  Justin Petkau 15
• The Pastor’s Wife: I doubt I imparted wisdom
  Carrie S. Martin 16
• Anarcrow: Sinners in the hands of an angry bird [comic]
  Tripp York and Zak Upright 17
• Give Preach A Chance
• The sermon is still needed 20
• A radical homiletic 22
• Too much social media? Get real
  Tim Runtz 26
• Salvage the sermon
  James Wilt 28
• The Glass Box Project
  Colin Vandenberg 35
• 1. Do I believe?
  Abigail Carl-Klassen 32
• 2. The sacrament of mockery
  Andrew Unger 33
• 3. oh god – why
  Aleke Dekker 33
• 4. It’s changing
  Kathleen Forde Meyer 33
• 5. I quit
  Glenn Hager 34
• 6. The Great Commission
  Diana Butler Bass 36
• 7. The transparent missionary
  Charlie Kraybill 37
• 8. A 9-year-old perceives with clarity
  Brenda Melles 38
• 9. Living in the Shadow of the Cross (snippet)
  Paul Kivel 39
• 10. A ‘GPS’ for acceptance
  Robert Pierce 40
• 11. The Year of the Flood (snippet)
  Margaret Atwood 41
• 12. If I ever were allowed to speak
  Jennifer Morgan 42
• 13. Let your ‘yes’ include a ‘no’
  Christine Marietta 43
• 14. There goes my reputation
  Beth Malena 45
• 15. Jesus Christ: Vision Quester
  Michael Hutchinson 46
• 16. ‘Tell them a parable’
  Robert Coperman-Haynes 47
• 17. Shut up!
  Nancy Payne 48
• 18. Radical marriage restores vineyards
  Donna Schaper 49
• 19. Falling Upwards (snippet)
  Richard Rohr 50
• 20. Unsanitary liberation [First place]
  Kelly Milne 51
• 21. Daring despairing [Third place]
  Peter Haresnape 52
• 22. One tweet sermon
  @prisonculture 54
• 23. On ‘real’ Christians and Christian privilege
  Melissa McEwan 55
• 24. A universe of voices
  Patrick Marchman 56
• 25. Don’t just spiritualize the wilderness
  Todd Wynward 56
• 26. Trans-forming faith
  Angela Yarber 57
• 27. An abandoner feels shame
  Jason Greene 58
• 28. Letter to my 19-year-old self
  Katherine Martinko 59
• 29. When all is lost, what is found? [Second place]
  Veronica Gaylie 60
• 30. The posthumous sermon of F. H.
  Emily Mekash-Summach 78
• Culturosities 18
• Twitter indulgences
• Climate name change campaign is hilarious . . . and maybe even effective
• MLK, Jr. inspired by Mahalia Jackson
• Experiments 64
• Radical roadtrip
• Pipe cleaner play
• Bike-cation
• Civil Disobedience 66
• Idle No More monitored
• Moral Majority protesters face jail
• Catholic sisters resist pipeline
• Defending Edward Snowden
• News
• Feministry 70
• Women and Wiki
• Written out
• Christian Peacemaker Teams 71
• Oil vs. vineyards
• Shale gas vs. berries
• Palm oil vs. villagers
• Catholic Worker 72
• Direct action farming
• Hollywood to St. Joseph’s House
• The rainbow page 73
• Westboro hates Ke$ha
• Chick-fil-A hates gays
• Reviews 76
• Does Jesus Really Love Me?
• The Frontman: Bono
• The Intentional Christian Community Handbook
• Passionate Embrace
• Blessed Are the Consumers