This archive has essays from the original Real Live Preacher blog, which is no longer online.

I am flattered to find that on occasion someone remembers something I wrote and would like to read it again. Click here to submit a request for me to bring back one of the RLP essays or stories. Over time this will become a nice archive of the original material.

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The richest man in town

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Delivered as a sermon at Sage Chapel, Cornell University, April 9th, 2006 Jesus of Nazareth was in town, and the word spread quickly. Whispers moved...

Crocodile Hunter

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When I first came to know Jonah and Robert, I was very eager to please. They were my first real wheelchair friends. When I...

The Smallest Person in All the World

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This story originally appeared at RealLivePreacher.com in two parts. Part One: The Rabbi, the Woman, and the Cities The Rabbi (Twenty Years Before) Jesus, son of Joseph, what...

The George Stories

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These three stories were posted in this order in January of 2003 at Real Live Preacher. This was VERY early in my RLP adventure....

A Religion of Denial

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Originally posted in 2006 at RLP Back in the early 90s, a man named John was a member of our church. He was a professional...

Seeing Gravity

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For a brief period of time in 2001 I started seeing gravity, and my world turned into a slapstick comedy. It began when a...

The Raccoon Stories

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In 2004 I had raccoon troubles. I wrote about them in a series of stories. Mind you, I didn't put a lot of effort...

Naked as the day we were born

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I had a vision the other day that came to me in the form of a daydream. I was sitting in the library staring...

Hollowed Be Thy Name

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Originally published at Real Live Preacher in May of 2003. These people asked me to do a wedding in a hollow church. I shit you...

.9 of X

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  Let this circle represent a pastor. Let x represent the reality of his life. X includes the best and the worst in him. X includes...

Do This in Remembrance of Me

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This is a somewhat early RLP piece, written when I was still anonymous. I'd guess it was 2003. I met Hugh Elliott, the man who...

i think i killed real live preacher

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My final entry i think i killed real live preacher i didnt mean to i thought resigning as the pastor of covenant baptist church would be...

You Ain’t Jesus, Preacher Part Two: Losing The Language of Love

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Note: Click here to read part one of this story. This is the story of how ministers find out they’re not Jesus. This is the...

You Ain’t Jesus, Preacher, Part One: The Tower of Babel

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Everyone has identity issues now and again. Maybe you don’t know who you are or don’t like who you think you might be. Maybe...

What if

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What if we suddenly saw the world with God’s eyes? What if the reality of good and evil exploded into our consciousness in a...
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