Let's Play Godball!: Unorthodox Sermons by a Circuit Rider Episcopal Priest from Middle Texas - Paperback

by Bruce W. Coggin (Author)

Sermons that approach the experience of God both reverently and playfully. Coggin believes that the laity are just as able as the ordained to think about God. Following the liturgical kalendar, these sermons take classical theology seriously while neither idolizing nor weaponizing it. The language ranges from academic to earthy, seeking to find strike chords of recognizable human experience against which theology is tested. Hearers often describe Coggin's preaching as "fresh," which he says is because he hasn't yet made his mind up about God. Let's Play Godball is aimed at opening made up minds to new and illuminating ways to think about God and the revelation in Christ Jesus.

Author Biography

Bruce Coggin was raised in Texas and educated at the University of Texas (Austin), Columbia University, the University of Dallas, and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he earned degrees in French, Spanish, British, and American language and literature, as well as theology. He has taught at several Texas colleges, most recently the University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Wesleyan University. He was for ten years Chairman of the Department of Languages at the Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. Ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1966, he has served congregations in several Texas communities, including Comanche, Hamilton, McKinney, Cleburne, Wichita Falls, Fort Worth, and Austin. In retirement, Coggin has joined other veteran priests of the Diocese of Fort Worth to bring Word and Sacrament to congregations without regular clergy. He was briefly priest in charge of Trinity Parish, Fort Worth, a historical congregation near TCU. Coggin presently lives in Fort Worth where he writes and gardens and enjoys his children and grandchildren.