Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit is a prequel to the writing and delivery of the sermon. The work of invention which includes the gathering of material is the primary focus of the book. The hard work of preaching takes place in the thinking, reading, and writing. The cross-disciplinary study provided here covers lessons learned by preachers and by novelists, poets, philosophers, and rhetoricians.

Rodney Wallace Kennedy is a writer and American Baptist Churches USA pastor. He is the author of The Immaculate Mistake: How Evangelicals Gave Birth to Donald Trump and Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy.