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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

Dennis R. Edwards on 1 Peter and Good Shepherd Sunday

For lectionary Year A, Good Shepherd Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Easter, includes a reading from 1 Peter. New Testament scholar Dennis R. Edwards explains why Peter’s first letter is especially relevant as people deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conversation | April 14, 2020

Preaching in the Power of the Spirit (with a Global-South Twist): Insights into the Spirit's Empowering of Hearers and Preachers of the Word

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar

Video | March 02, 2020

Improvisational Preaching

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

Audio | February 28, 2020

Worship Symposium Speaks Hope and Grace

The theme of “Living in Hope and Grace,” based on 1 Peter, threaded through much of the three-day Calvin Symposium on Worship that drew some 1,500 participants Jan. 30 - Feb. 1 from across North America and beyond.

News Article | February 25, 2020

The Bowed Head: How Preachers Deal with Grief

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

Audio | February 10, 2020

Eschatological Preaching: Imitating the Tension, Movement and Hope of the Gospel

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

Audio | February 10, 2020

1 Peter's Prickly Passages

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

Audio | February 10, 2020

Preachers Need Friends, Too

The peer cohort is a place for preachers to strengthen their skills in real time while building intentional friendships.

Reflection | February 04, 2020

Final Exams Every Week: Life with a Peer Learning Group

Peer learning groups promote faithful endurance and mutual encouragement in the face of what makes the preaching life challenging.

Reflection | January 06, 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

Trauma-Informed Worship: Address Trauma to Begin Healing

Most pastors realize that people come to church with deep fears, sorrows, and concerns that often remain unexpressed in worship. But because Mount Aery Baptist Church has worked to become a trauma-informed congregation, its worship services are becoming a communal place of healing.

Feature Story | November 12, 2019

Mandy Smith on The Vulnerable Pastor

Christian leaders, especially pastors, sometimes feel bad about the gap between their ideal of Christlike ministry and the reality. Pastor Mandy Smith explains that honestly accepting vulnerabilities and human limitations makes room for God’s strength to be revealed in people and congregations.

Conversation | November 05, 2019