Cross Talk: Preaching Redemption Here and Now

Contending that preachers have become silent on a major doctrinal theme of the Christian faith—the meaning of the crucifixion and the cross as a theological symbol—Sally A. Brown describes the nature and causes of this phenomenon and provides a strategy for reclaiming "cross talk" in the pulpit. Brown proposes a metaphorical and pastoral model for preaching about the cross. Preachers can reclaim preaching on the cross, she urges, by joining New Testament metaphors to pastoral situations rat...