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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 | 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 Anthony L. Bennett on Engaging Trauma in Sermons Many urban pastors deal with trauma. Some preach without benefit of pay or formal training. This Baptist church gathered its associate ministers monthly to learn about trauma and exegete Scripture to engage people hungry for healing and justice. Conversation | October 30, 2019 Sherrye Willis and Angela Johnson on Faith-Based Healing from Trauma Ten African American churches in Texas are focusing on helping youth understand and heal from trauma. This knowledge helps adults become more aware of their own trauma and is changing worship practices. Conversation | October 15, 2019 From Colleagues to Companions: Unexpected Fruits of a Peer Learning Group What do you get when you put a diverse group of clergy around a table once a month? More beauty than you might expect. Reflection | August 28, 2019 The Costly Loss of the OT Prophets 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | May 10, 2019 Truth that Awakens Holy Desire 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | May 08, 2019 Preaching While White: Practices of Humility and Courage in the Face of Injustice 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | April 10, 2019 Frank Thomas on the Power of African-American Preaching “How is it that you can take a group of people who are in despair and when you get finished preaching the gospel, they have hope?” This question sent Frank Thomas down a path that led him nearly forty years later to create the first PhD program in African-American preaching. Conversation | April 10, 2019 With Healing in His Wings: Preaching Luke’s Gospel of Justice and Wholeness 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | April 05, 2019 The Savior of Justice for the Needy 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word Worship Service | Video | February 27, 2019 The Love of God for All People and Creatures 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word Worship Service | Video | February 21, 2019 From the House of Bread the One Who Feeds the Flock 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word & Table Worship Service | Video | February 13, 2019 Five Things I Love about My Preaching Peer Group A young pastor calls his preaching peer group “a funeral and a pep rally in the same ninety minutes.” Find out why. Reflection | February 06, 2019 Amanda Benckhuysen on Preaching from the Minor Prophets Most congregations have never heard a sermon preached from the prophetic books of Nahum or Obadiah. Other than a few choice passages in Jeremiah or Isaiah, the major prophets are mainly ignored too. That means worshipers are missing out on more than a quarter of inspired Scripture. Conversation | December 12, 2018 John McClure on How Liturgical Practices Can Shape Conversations in a Pluralistic World Christian liturgical practices—confession, intercession, and preaching—contain wisdom that can bring compassion and consensus to public conversations around contentious moral issues. Conversation | December 04, 2018 Duane Kelderman on the Challenge of Preaching in a Fragile Europe A Dominican preaching colloquium addresses the challenge of preaching in contemporary Europe, where secularism, individualism, and a lack of cultural consensus have given rise to fear, division, and xenophobia. Conversation | November 16, 2018 What I Learned through Preaching Partnerships Fred Provencher has participated in two preaching peer groups in his twenty-plus years of ministry. 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