The Crisis of Bad Preaching - Whitfield, Joshua J
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"Echoing Popes Benedict and Francis, Fr. Joshua Whitfield confronts what is perhaps the most common complaint of Catholics around the world: hollow, vacuous preaching. Marked by poorly prepared, often stale, and largely irrelevant homilies, this crisis is fueling the mass exodus of people from the Church. A parish priest in Dallas, Whitfield bids his fellow preachers to profound renewal, reminding them that preaching is not just something they do, it is essential to who they are. More than just another how-to book, The Crisis of Bad Preaching is an audacious response to an existential crisis.…mehr

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"Echoing Popes Benedict and Francis, Fr. Joshua Whitfield confronts what is perhaps the most common complaint of Catholics around the world: hollow, vacuous preaching. Marked by poorly prepared, often stale, and largely irrelevant homilies, this crisis is fueling the mass exodus of people from the Church. A parish priest in Dallas, Whitfield bids his fellow preachers to profound renewal, reminding them that preaching is not just something they do, it is essential to who they are. More than just another how-to book, The Crisis of Bad Preaching is an audacious response to an existential crisis. It is at once deeply challenging and deeply uplifting and chockfull of practical advice for a wholesale reversal of the status quo"--
Autorenporträt
Rev. Joshua J. Whitfield is pastor of St. Rita Catholic Community in Dallas, Texas, where he has served in a variety of roles since his conversion to Catholicism in 2009. Whitfield previously served as an Episcopal priest and was ordained in the Catholic Church under the pastoral provision of St. John Paul II in 2012. Whitfield is a contributor to The Dallas Morning News, for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2016. His work also has been published in The Texas Catholic, Newsday, and America magazine. He has appeared on Catholic Answers Focus and local television affiliates in Dallas. Whitfield is the author of Pilgrim Holiness. He is a 1999 graduate of Texas Tech University, with a bachelor's degree in English and history. He trained for ministry at the College of the Resurrection in Mirfield, England, from 2000 to 2003, while earning bachelor's and master's degrees in theology and a master's degree in theology and pastoral studies from the University of Leeds. He earned his master's degree in theology from Duke University in 2008. Whitfield and his wife, Alli, live in Dallas with their children.