Singing the Faith: Sermon Hymns for Every Sunday

Educated in Europe, with a doctoral degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland, the author has recently retired as rector of an Episcopal Church in South Carolina, after a distinguished career as pastor, missionary (in Liberia and Tanzania), and professor at American colleges and universities (professor of homiletics at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee). He has a passion for teaching the gospel the way Jesus communicated it, both through preaching and teaching as well as through lyrics and hymnody. Together with Joy, his wife, collaborator, and best critic for thirty-five year, Dr. Retzlaff actively promotes a return to Christian values grounded in the words of Jesus and a radical departure from mythological, philosophical, and folkloric obnebulations of a message which deserves a bold proclamation today, both in word and song.