Download PDF: Csinos, Toward a Childist Homiletic Abstract The art of preaching has often been adult-centric in how it is discussed among academic homileticians and how it is practiced by frontline preachers, leaving children silent at the sidelines. In this
Download PDF: Wymer, KneeDeep Preaching Abstract Homiletical white bullshit is any attempt by preachers, homiletical scholars, teachers of homiletics, and participants in preaching events to escape recognition and acknowledgement—on the part of ourselves and on the part of others—of the
Download PDF: RV Sigmon, Scandal of Having Something to Say By Lance B. Pape Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2013. 176 pages. $39.95 Is postliberal preaching a possibility? That is the question driving Lance Pape’s trimmed and published dissertation project, The Scandal
Download PDF: Alcantara, Fail Better Abstract In recent years, educational theorists have focused greater attention on the ways that improvisational performance theory can enhance pedagogical practice. As a result, values endemic to improvisational performance such as play, collaboration, and experimentation are
Download PDF: Thompson, Now that’s preaching Abstract Communal expectations of preaching can reinforce narratives that limit preaching to particular tropes of performance, and in so doing, link preaching to certain bodies while excluding others. This essay explores how bodies of difference
Download PDF: McCray, Sweating Spitting Cursing Abstract Holiness does not always manifest itself in pristine ways. Sometimes profane vehicles open us to the holy. This essay explores three such occasions that surface in preaching. First, I consider the sweating preacher. Drawing
Download PDF: Pape, Preaching about Stewardship ABSTRACT In an earlier essay, I offered some reflections on preaching about stewardship from the Synoptic gospels along with a brief specimen of practice. That essay spoke to a particular homiletical scenario, but it opened
Download PDF: RV Dennis The Good Funeral By Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2013. 252 pages. $25.00. In their extraordinary collaborative effort to “redeem the funeral” from its “failed and falling ways” (28), acclaimed funeral
Download PDF: RV Anthony Preaching at the Crossroads By David Lose Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013. 112 pages. $19.00 The sense that preaching is in crisis has long shaped the homiletician’s work. The promise of refined technique has been the frequent response.
Download PDF: RV Dani Invasion of the Dead By Brian K. Blount Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014. 156 pages. $16.00. Can one engage pop culture’s literary and cinematic renditions of zombie invasions, vampire slayings, and devastating natural disasters with the
Download PDF: Pape, Talking about money ABSTRACT The assumption has been that to preach on a given topic from the Synoptic Gospels, the preacher should locate a passage in which Jesus teaches prescriptively on the subject, or something like it. Preaching
Download PDF: RV Neal, Preaching After God By Phil Snider Eugene: Cascade Books, 2012. 227 pages. $20.80 Preaching After God begins with a true story about a roomful of Christian preachers who cannot come up with a concrete instance of God’s
Download PDF: Potts, Preaching in the Subjunctive Abstract This essay proposes a novel understanding of the Christian sermon through an engagement with contemporary theories of ritual and with traditional interpretations of the sacraments. After proposing that the sermon is an
Download PDF: Voelz, Reconsidering the Image of Preacher as Teacher Abstract Contemporary homiletic discourse posits a number of images that represent beliefs about preaching identity. Among those images, the relationship between preaching and teaching is one of varied use through
Download PDF: Hearlson, The Promise of Pierre Bourdieu Abstract The relationship between the field of homiletics and the practice of preaching is complex. This paper explores how Pierre Bourdieu’s social theories of practice might shine light upon the work of homileticians
Download PDF: Voelz, Be Careful Abstract Many youth find themselves regularly engaged in the practice of preaching. Unfortunately, preaching and sermons for/to youth undergo little to no homiletical analysis by members of both academy and church. In order to encourage more
Download PDF: Pape, Narrating Congregational Life ABSTRACT Religious imagination, defined as the human capacity for “seeing as,” is suggested as the “field of action” for biblical preaching. The essay explores some implications of this understanding, with special focus on typology as