Description
Preaching, and the discipline of preaching, is at a crossroads. The changing realities of church and theological education, the diversity of our classrooms, and our increasingly more complex community contexts leave us looking for tools to lend a hand train a rising generation of preachers for a future whose contours are far from clear. The questions are immense: Find out how to strengthen preachers in contexts that are diverse religiously, culturally, and ethnically, both outside and inside the church? Find out how to lend a hand students take varied contexts seriously as they’re formed as leaders?
In Ways of the Word, a dynamic team of master preachers brings much-needed lend a hand. Different in race, gender, age, and tradition, both Sally A. Brown and Luke A. Powery speak with one voice their belief that preaching is-Spirit-empowered event: an embodied, vocalized, actively received, here-and-now witness to the ongoing work of God on this planet.
They aspire to lend a hand students and preachers alike to reflect on a journey of learning by doing. They aim to lend a hand preachers to change into more attuned to the Spirit, more adept in preaching’s component skills, and more self-aware about all that may be at stake in proclaiming the redemptive work of God in specific contexts.