Meet the cohort.
We welcome the inaugural cohort of ten Preaching Fellows!
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Jay Biedenharn, Memphis, Tennessee
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John Bortulin, Mukwongo, Wisconsin
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Taran Denning, Spokane, Washington
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Bobby Griffith, Enon Valley, Pennsylvania
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Lara Musser Gritter, Salisbury, North Carolina
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Michael Peuse, Rosholt, Wisconsin
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Kallie Pitcock, Nacodoches, Texas
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Willie Rosin, Muscatine, Iowa
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Dennis Sander, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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William "Chip" Wilson, Belmont, North Carolina
The 2024-2025 cohort of the Preaching Fellows arrive from a cross section of denominations and traditions:
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Church of Christ (Disciples of Christ)
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The Episcopal Church
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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Presbyterian Church ECO
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Presbyterian Church USA
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Roman Catholic Church
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Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
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In spite of their different backgrounds, each one is committed to delivering a keen-edged word from God that points to Christ's benefits given from the cross to all those L-word sinners (with a nod to Robert Farrar Capon): the last, the least, the lost, the leper, the languishing, the (l)broken, the (l)dying, and the (l)dead.