Preacher's Exchange - Quotable

Preaching with imagination has never been about simply decorating a sermon to seduce people into listening. In a sense, it has always been about allowing space for a kind of playful energy that can delight and surprise us out of the places where we are spiritually stuck, that can kindle and strengthen hope. It has always been about flinging open windows for the light of the Spirit; about setting doors ajar for God’s holy Breath. And it seems as urgent as it has ever been to set those doors ajar today.
---Linda Clader in VOICING THE VISION: IMAGINATION AND PROPHETIC PREACHING
(New York: Morehouse Publishing, 2003), page 5 (Cf. The Book Review section of this webpage.)