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Preacher Breath: Sermons & Essays by Kyndall Rae Rothaus Paperback – January 7, 2015
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- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 7, 2015
- Dimensions6 x 0.47 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101573127345
- ISBN-13978-1573127349
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- Publisher : Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated (January 7, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1573127345
- ISBN-13 : 978-1573127349
- Item Weight : 10.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.47 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,679,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,864 in Christian Sermons (Books)
- #3,414 in Religious Sermons
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Rev. Kyndall Rae Rothaus is the author of Thy Queendom Come: Breaking Free from Patriarchy to Save Your Soul (2021) and Preacher Breath (2015). She is a preacher, poet, feminist theologian, queer woman, storyteller, and soul companion. She is the co-founder of Nevertheless She Preached, a national, ecumenical preaching conference designed to elevate the voices of womxn on the margins.
Kyndall is a sought-after public speaker whose piercing insights into the human spiritual condition are delivered with poetic and rhetorical brilliance. She has written for various publications including Faith and Leadership, Ethics Daily, Review and Expositor, Baptist News Global, Working Preacher, and The Upper Room Disciplines. She is an award-winning preacher and spoken word artist. She spent eight years as a Senior Pastor in Baptist churches in Texas, where, among other things, she left a legacy of fighting for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the church. In 2019 she left institutional church to work with individuals as they seek to heal from spiritual trauma and reimagine their spirituality.
Kyndall is the proud adoptive mom of two rambunctious toddlers and two highly extraverted pets.
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Customers praise the writing style as poetic, inspiring, and meaningful. They find the sermons and essays thoughtful and challenging. The author's creativity and boldness are praised.
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Customers find the writing style poetic, inspiring, and meaningful. They describe the sermons and essays as beautiful, thoughtful, illuminating, challenging, and creative. The author spins phrases and metaphors like a master weaver. The book is praised as a must-read for preachers and teachers.
"...The sermons and essays in this book are beautiful. Kyndall Rothaus is a poet, spinning phrases and metaphors like a master weaver...." Read more
"...The messages are inspiring and thoughtful, resonating deeply...." Read more
"...The personal stories are heartrendingly honest and provide further blueprints for staying open to God's voice and navigating life's twists and turns...." Read more
"Wonderfully poetic and inspirational writing! Any church would be blessed to have Kyndall Rothaus or someone like her as its pastor...." Read more
Customers appreciate the book's creativity and inspiring writing style. They praise the candor, beauty, and boldness of the author.
"...as a preacher/pastor, which she vulnerably lays out with candor and beauty. Rothaus has easily been one of my favorite preachers...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2015I'm still making my way through this gem of a book. I think it's best read slowly. The sermons and essays in this book are beautiful. Kyndall Rothaus is a poet, spinning phrases and metaphors like a master weaver. PREACHER BREATH doesn't just give you new insight or information on biblical texts or on the task of preaching (though it certainly does both well); it also makes you feel, it draws you inward, it invites you to swim around in the Bible, to explore what it means to invite to join you in the swim, it gives you a window into Rothaus' own journey as a preacher/pastor, which she vulnerably lays out with candor and beauty.
Rothaus has easily been one of my favorite preachers. She is now one of my favorite writers. I can't commend this book more highly.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017This is an astounding and moving book! While it has great usefulness for those who preach on a regular basis, it is worth the price just to read through the sermons that follow each chapter. The messages are inspiring and thoughtful, resonating deeply. Reading her description of the different aspects of preaching gave me great appreciate for those entrusting with that responsibility as well as inspiring my own personal journey into preaching. This is a must read for anyone who preaches or teaches!
- Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2015Just finished this book and know I will be re-reading it. I'm not a preacher and have no aspirations to be one, but this book has an appeal for anyone who is seeking an authentic spiritual path. The sermons seem to flow so naturally from scripture to modern, beautiful, and fresh interpretations. The personal stories are heartrendingly honest and provide further blueprints for staying open to God's voice and navigating life's twists and turns. I highly recommend reading this beautifully written book.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2015Kyndall's willingness to share her own vulnerability allows us to identify with her journey. Her gut level honesty in sharing the ups and downs of life and of faith validate our own search and, sometimes, struggle toward faith. She often voices what we already feel and, thereby, helps us to learn to honor our feelings and private "knowings".
- Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2015Wonderfully poetic and inspirational writing! Any church would be blessed to have Kyndall Rothaus or someone like her as its pastor. A delightful book by an author with a refreshingly creative spirit.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2015Thoughtful, illuminating, challenging, and beautiful. I use the book as a devotional that I can return to over and over again, making new discoveries each time. Thank you, Kyndall, for you gracious boldness!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2016Although written to inspire preachers, Kyndall's writings will inspire anyone. She is creative and definitely thinks outside the box. Loved the book.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2015With humble sensitivity and insightful wisdom, Pastor Rothaus shares from Scripture.
Kyndall's sermons offer a depth of vulnerable transparency that embody the Spirit of God’s made alive in her words.
In every sermon, Pastor Rothaus invites her readers to join her in reflecting on life in our world as we reflect on the Word. In every sermon, I found myself reflecting on Kyndall’s depth of insight as she invited me to discern the depth and mystery and love of God.
Kyndall’s preaching invites me to think about God and my life. Her insights stick with me in a way that cause me to reflect deeply with her insight.
Even the sections of the book, “Voice” “Bones” invite the reader to reflect on the Word Made Flesh and how believers are to embody this Word in their lives.
Kyndall’s preaching invites readers into imaginative space in order to glean new insight.
Without offering a single “practice” for “how to prepare a sermon,” as Pastor Rothaus describes her sermon process in the midst of her sermons, she teaches her readers “how to prepare a better sermon.”
A seminary classroom of preachers should read and reflect on Kyndall’s methods for sermon writing in order to transform their homiletical method.
All preachers have something to learn from Kyndall’s honest and wise, imaginative and scholarly insight for preaching.
The preface and epilogue are as insightful as every.single.sermon in this collection.