I was saddened to learn that the Reverend Fred Craddock died two days ago, while I was deep in retreat. I never had the pleasure of meeting the old master preacher, but his book Preaching was my textbook in seminary, and it exercised a profound influence on me as a speaker, at least in a meta sense. Many of the details in his instruction proved irrelevant to someone neither lectionary nor even scripturally oriented. But the larger view, oh my.
He was a teacher of the deep way…
May he rest in peace.
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