By: Leah Schade

"Here are tips and suggestions for responding to sermon pushback when addressing social issues in your preaching.

"If you’re a preacher who’s addressed a contemporary social issue in a sermon, you may have received negative pushback.  In a survey my team and I conducted this year about ministry, preaching, and social issues, clergy who experienced backlash to their sermons indicated that it came most frequently in loss of worship attendance (21%) or from angry words, letters, or emails (19%)."

The Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade; [email protected]

"EcoPreacher 1-2-3 ideas for reading and preaching Deuteronomy 6:1-9 from a perspective of Earth care.
Deuteronomy 6:1-9 is one of the readings for the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost if neither All Saints Day nor Reformation Sunday are observed.
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"Focus on vv. Deut. 6:3—5: 3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well with you, and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you. 4Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. 5You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might."