Episode 8: Mark Oakley - Preaching as Poetry: The Nearness in Singing Theology into Life

What happens when a preacher treats language like a sacrament and poetry like oxygen?

In this episode of Preaching Well, Dean Mark Oakley invites us into a world where sermons breathe, words stretch, and faith grows in the tension between doubt and delight.

He moves from John Donne’s “nearness of the preacher” to the postcards of Nazareth; from poetry that startles the soul to taxi cab grace in Dresden; from the war with cliché to the courage of sermons that shake us awake.

This is preaching as craft, honesty, imagination, and hope - told with Mark’s trademark wit, depth, and gentle fire.

Quietly electric. Thoughtful. Full of resonance.