About Tom Plum

Tom Plum is a Green Country (northeastern Oklahoma) writer and an ordained minister. Rev. Plum received his M.Div. from Oklahoma City’s Oklahoma Christian University.

A Military Chaplain’s Sermon for the Occasion of War at Advent

By |2022-12-06T17:07:58-06:00December 6th, 2022|Categories: Advent, Christianity, Christmas, Timeless Essays, War|

The challenge for the soldier at Christmas is to question his agency, and to reflect upon the birth of the Christ child as both the pronouncement of demise for those who intend to make war, and of salvation for those who suffer its symptoms. In the beginning, God. In the beginning, God created. In the [...]

The Art of Homily and the Conservative Critique

By |2019-10-08T17:41:37-05:00April 1st, 2017|Categories: Christianity, Gospel Reflection, Theology|

While ushering their congregations through a period of personal reflection and preparation, clergy have in the occasion of the sermon the opportunity to aid in the rediscovery of the church’s language, both as God’s medium of judgment and as his enduring, self-revelatory vehicle to the world… For clergy preparing for their flocks a meaning-rich Holy [...]

Faith & Football: What Sunday Morning Can Learn from Sunday Afternoon

By |2024-02-11T14:45:39-06:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Christianity, Faith, Football, Sports|

The Game Like any sports culture, American football arrives at its season with its own mythos. The difference is, here in the States, no other sporting event captures and communicates so well the id of the American psyche: good guys vs. bad guys, victory or defeat, and violence, violence, violence. But I am more than [...]

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