Monday Highlights (May 15)

It is under way! We gather online and in person to begin #Homiletics2023
Welcome to the Festival of Homiletics 2023

The Festival of Homiletics begins soon: May 15-18, 2023!
Bulletins for Worship 2023

Find them all here, in PDF format
For In Person Attendees: Restaurant/Businesses in downtown Minneapolis

Time to make some plans for lunch and dinner
The Art of Preaching

Artists and preaching resource sponsors
Read and Learn Together

Publishers, schools, and seminary sponsors
With Gratitude for Our 2023 Festival Sponsors

Online and in person vendors
Our Theme: Preaching Hope for a Weary World

That improbably tangible gift from God
Festival 2023 Speaker Lineup

Here is a sneak peek at just a few of the speakers you will be joining at this upcoming Festival
Preaching Hope for a Weary World

Registration opens on November 1 for the 2023 Festival of Homiletics, to be held May 15-18 in Minneapolis.
Monday Highlights

The first hybrid Festival of Homiletics has begun! Monday afternoon and evening we registered in person: Or settled into our remote locations for the Festival online: During the online Working Preacher Books podcast discussion, participants resonated with Real People, Real Faith author Cindy Halvorson’s encouragement to enter Biblical stories from the perspective of supporting characters, […]
Workshop Handouts: Robert Wicks
2022 Festival of Homiletics handouts include: Robert Wicks Lecture: “Riding the Dragon: Preventing Secondary Stress in Ministry” Access the PDF on Relevant Books by the Presenter
Welcome to the Festival of Homiletics 2022: Preaching After the Storm
Preachers, we are confronting a collective trauma and we have yet to realize fully its global, national, ecclesial, and individual effects. There’s no going back to life before the storm. So what does our preaching need to be and do going forward? If COVID-19 has taught us anything homiletically, it’s that trauma should be a […]
Worship bulletins for 2022 Festival

In an effort to reduce paper waste, there are not print versions of the worship bulletins at the 2022 Festival of Homiletics. All bulletin materials will be projected on screens in the worship areas and accessible below for advance printing. You can access all PDF bulletins from this shared Google folder. Note: Wifi will be limited […]
How We’re Handling Covid-19: A Personal Note from Managing Director Dawn Alitz
Dear friends, It’s time to address the elephant in the room… Things are still uncertain with regard to Covid, Omicron, and the world generally. And as someone who is organizing an in-person event, there’s just no way to avoid talking about it. I’d hoped that by now the pandemic would be far behind us. I’d […]