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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Wright lives in Widjabul country. He has written extensively for Overland journal and his essays have won the Eureka St Prize, the Nature Conservancy Prize, the Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize (twice) and the Scarlett Award and been shortltisted for several others. Stephen works part-time as a manager of a NSW NGO delivering men's behaviour change programs for men who use violence in the home, and also as a counsellor engaged in long-term psychotherapy with women and men who have experienced violence and abuse in childhood. Stephen's non-fiction novella A Lantern, Carried Down a Dark Path is forthcoming from Tiny Owl. Klappentext In Alive to the Word Stephen Wright offers a constructive introduction to preaching as an existing and varied practice throughout the church on which it is important to continue to reflect theologically! so that it is executed with developing spirituality! understanding and skill.Alive to the Word includes discussion of the full range of key components in the understanding and practice of preaching - from its basic theological rationale right through to the dynamics of live communication and its aftermath.The books begins by reflecting on the nature and the context of preaching! not least in a communications culture and moves on to setting a constructive agenda for the development of preaching as a core practice of the Christian church for the preacher! the congregation and the wider church.
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Stephen Wright has practiced law and taught Bible in Mississippi for forty-nine years. Though he has litigated numerous published legal decisions, this is his first published book.
