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Performing Sermons Latinamente

Jared E. Alcántara, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, and Lis Valle explore how their shared Latinx identity shapes the way they preach. They define the sermon performed latinamente as an improvisational, interactive, and transformative event embodied in community.

Academic Article | February 08, 2021

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Thoughts on Preaching and the Teaching of Preaching

Looking at today’s North American cultural climate, Alyce McKenzie reflects on what it’s time to let go of in preaching and in the teaching of preaching—and what it’s time to grab hold of.

Academic Article | November 09, 2020

Preparing Our Preaching Pedagogies for the Year 2030

In this paper, Jared Alcántara proposes a twenty-first century preaching pedagogy that he describes as “a turn toward improvisational teaching that is technologically innovative, intentionally collaborative, and strategically diverse.”

Academic Article | July 06, 2020

Deep Calls to Deep: Nurturing Preachers for the Work of Proclamation

Deep Calls to Deep is a program to strengthen preaching by using communities of peer groups to nurture pastors’ own spiritual, emotional, physical, and imaginative lives. In this paper, Ruthanna Hooke discusses the structure and themes of Deep Calls to Deep, a peer group learning program rooted in the conviction that preaching is soul-work.

Academic Article | June 17, 2020

Pedagogical Insights on Teaching African American Preaching

This essay reflects on Frank Thomas' unique journey through the pastorate to become a teacher of preaching, and on the pedagogy he developed along the way.

Academic Article | December 11, 2019

A Difficult Assignment: Suggestions for Leading in the Sanctuary

This lecture offers some concrete suggestions as to how clergy and musicians can better work together to inspire a worship life that helps others to unwrap the gift of grace.

Academic Article | July 11, 2012

Baptizing the Nations: Mission, Culture, and Liturgy in the Gospel of Matthew

Research/writing project for 2003 Luce Seminar, “Prospects of Historic Liturgies in a Postmodern Age.” A work in progress.

Academic Article | May 15, 2012

Response to "Inculturation, Worship, and Dispositions for Ministry"

This essay is a response to John Witvliet's Afterword in Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices.

Academic Article | March 02, 2011