Some Mock, Others Believe: Pondering Strangeness in Our Preaching

You bring some strange things to our ears. Some in Athens said it to the apostle Paul. Some in America will say it to faithful preachers today. Of course, strange is a relative term. What’s familiar to some is foreign to others — whether in multicultural cities or, even now, in more rural and monolithic places because of the Internet. More generally, human life in God’s wonderfully wide and detailed world presents us with the challenges of strangeness in the midst of our familiarities.