Charles L. Campbell is Professor of Homiletics at Duke Divinity School. He is author of The Word before the Powers: An Ethic of Preaching and Preaching Jesus: The New Directions for Homiletics in Hans Frei’s Postliberal Theology and coauthor of Preaching Fools: The Gospel as a Rhetoric of Folly and The Word on the Street: Performing the Scriptures in the Urban Context.