HeyJaredLeonard Sweet
Leonard Sweet is one of the most prolific Christian authors in the world today, with over 70 books to his name & 2000 published sermons. A theologian of imagination, semiotician, & prophetic voice to the church, his works span genres & generations
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Here Comes the Light (opens the original)
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A friend asked me recently if I had ever done the semiotics of connecting God’s “Let there be light” with Jesus’ “I am the Light of the world.”I hadn’t.But the moment he asked, I heard an echo of something I have been arguing for thirty years: Light arrives by ear before it arrives by eye.Genesis does not begin with a spectacle to behold, or some silent… Read more
Stewards of the Mystery (opens the original)
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Every day I am more and more amazed by what holds the contemporary imagination hostage.A culture supposedly cursed with the attention span of a goldfish will spend six hours listening to strangers discuss a murder committed decades ago. My daughter Soren Coventry Sweet is only one of an astonishing number of true crime podcast addicts, who command a quarter of all podcast listening. This is more than a niche. This is an entire nation that leans in—lights low, earbuds in—and aren’t merely consumi
The Knot (opens the original)
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Some neighbors ask the question that has never stopped reverberating: “Is not this the tekton?” —Mark 6:3We narrowly translate it “carpenter.” But a tekton is more than someone with cedar shavings in the hair. A tekton is an architect of matter: builder, joiner, fabricator, fitter. Someone who knows how things fit together—and how to make them fit together when they refuse to fit in. Wood. Stone. Word. World.Behind tekton stands an ancient root that has less to do with hammeres and more to do wi
Get Lost! (opens the original)
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I began my faith pilgrimage by turning Jesus into a pop quiz.Faith was a frantic scramble for the right answers. Jesus was my problem-solver, my answer key. Find the verse. Fill in the blank. Ace the test.I had answers. I wanted to be the church’s “Answer Man.”Then came the disruptors.Rilke first. In graduate school I stumbled across that famous counsel in Letters to a Young Poet (1903): “live the questions.”Three words, and my pilgrimage pivoted.Then Frederick Buechner, with doubt as “the ants
The Hinge (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years ago I served as the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, a bedroom community of Manhattan. On 9/11 people from Madison and Chatham came off the trains to a crystal blue sky caked in the ashes of their brothers and sisters. Nineteen never came off. Six from Madison. Thirteen from Chatham. Their names are set in salvaged steel in two small parks a few miles apart.Three heroic images burned themselves into me that day. The third one I
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