By Jin Hee Han

This issue is packed with insights about the important theme of steadfast love. It translates the Hebrew ḥesed. Such a tiny term with a gigantic gist! Our readers will also detect the joy that our writers have embedded in their reflections on steadfast love. This fall issue of The Living Pulpit blesses our journey of faith as well as the time of our morning devotion when we start the day with hunger for the signs of God’s steadfast love in our daily life.

By Jin Hee Han

Our 2013 summer issue is packed with blessings that center around the theme of hospitality. Authors for this issue come from many different backgrounds, but their contributions come together to make a chorus that calls attention to the centrality of hospitality in our faith walk. They help us to feel the warmth that hospitality generates, and their testimonies are a telltale sign that hospitality continues to be the mainstay of our communal life.

By Jin Hee Han

This issue brings proceedings of the Bible conference “In God’s Image” held at New York Theological Seminary on Monday, October 22, 2012. I am confident that this issue will capture the blessings poured out at the conference and transmit them to the wider community of The Living Pulpit.

By Jin Hee Han

The conference, “A Season for Renewal”, focused on ways that could help stop the fall in membership of U.S mainline churches—perhaps even reverse it! The October issue of The Living Pulpit offers the articles by the Conference speakers.

By Jin Hee Han

On behalf of the editorial and production team of The Living Pulpit, I send you peace and grace through our Lord. Our April-June 2012 issue on the raising of Jesus Christ received an enthusiastic reception, adding to the celebration of the hope of resurrection. It seems the spirit of Easter never wears out, for each Sunday brings a testimony to the everlasting life in the Lord.

By Jin Han

I am delighted to invite you to this new issue of The Living Pulpit that focuses on the resurrection. As many of our readers know, The Living Pulpit devoted a past issue to Easter, and many would fondly remember it. The current issue is not a reprint. It is a totally new edition with feature articles freshly written by biblical scholars, church leaders, preachers, and a rabbi.

By Jin Han

The feature articles are based on the presentations delivered in the Annual New York Theological Seminary Conference held on Oct. 17, 2011. The banner theme of the conference was Bible Engagement. Presenters challenged the churches to engage the Bible in their mission, and their contribution has been revised to speak to the immediate needs of our readers and audience. These articles will point us in the direction of empowerment that comes from the word of the Lord in the Bible.

by Keith A. Russell

This issue of The Living Pulpit concerns itself with the ancient practice of jubilee. Various perspectives on the subject are presented, examined and applied. I hope that you find the content and complexity of the topic stimulating to your own thinking and that you will be excited about the prospects that this theme has for preaching in the 21st century.

By Rev. Dr. Keith Russell

Letter from the Editor reflecting on the life of E. Lee Hancock.

By Rev. Dr. Keith Russell

A Message from the Editor on Pentecost

By Keith A. Russell

We are certainly impacted by globalization as was dramatically demonstrated in the recent economic collapse both here and around the world. Do we or can we also have an impact on the reality of globalization. How does this global reality affect our preaching and teaching? Hopefully we can become more informed about this complicated world view and begin to understand the implications it presents from the simplest sermon on stewardship to the more complicated focus on community building and loving our neighbor.

by Rev. Dr. Keith A. Russell

This issue of The Living Pulpit is focused on sacrament. …we explore the meaning or reality of sacrament from a variety of perspectives.