Preaching on the Brink offers cutting-edge insights into the future of Christian preaching: where it is headed and why it is changing. The essays in this collection treat such diverse topics as women in laity and clergy, the unchurched black male, urban congregations, and the impact of television on gospel proclamation. The essays were written in honor of Henry Mitchell by Eugene Lowry, Fred Craddock, David Buttrick, Paul Scott Wilson, James Earl Massey, Richard Ward, Barabara Harris, Thomas Troeger, William Willimon, Edwina Hunter, Barbara Brown Zikmund and others.