It's the Environment, Stupid
July 13, 2023 | Jim Angehr
Blogs are fun! One of the ways in which I like to use this space is to treat Letters to You as a space for outtakes from recent sermons. One of the saddest parts of my sermon writing job is that each week, I need to make cuts to the drafts of my...
Analysis of Paralysis
June 15, 2023 | Jim Angehr
“I control nothing, but I can do anything.” That’s the thesis statement that we’re interrogating right now in Letters to You. You can read the first part of our conversation here. We live in interesting times, friends...
Ant, Meet Boot
June 8, 2023 | Jim Angehr
It’s always hard for preachers to know what to glean from sermon feedback. Unless you give a message that’s unbelievably awesome or undeniably horrible, you’ll not get much of a response at all from people, which means that...
Unrealiable Preachers?
May 25, 2023 | Jim Angehr
My apologies for having spent more time away from my blog desk than planned, everyone. Been busy! Still, let’s circle back around to what I last wrote in this space. Perhaps a trifle of a question, but a book on writing by author Elena...
Unreliable Narrators
April 6, 2023 | Jim Angehr
I deeply love doing it, but being a preacher is weird––in lots of ways, including the preaching itself. Or maybe not. In these days of social media, Substacks, YouTube channels, and podcasts, everyone is pumping out content. Who...