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Discussions of racial difference always embody a story. The dominant story told in our society about race has many components, but two stand out: (1) racial difference is an essential characteristic, fully determining individual and group identity; a...

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Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World
Finding Hope in an Age of Despair

By Otis Moss III

"Can preaching recover a Blues sensibility and dare speak with authority in the midst of tragedy? America is living stormy Monday, but the pulpit is preaching happy Sunday. The world is experiencing the Blues, and pulpiteers are dispensing excessive ...

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Fractured Ground
Preaching in the Wake of Mass Trauma

By Kimberly R. Wagner

Mass trauma is an unavoidable reality in the United States. Trauma from violence, natural disasters, and disease has become all too familiar in the American experience, inevitably raising questions about where God is to be found in the midst of such ...

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How Odd of God
Chosen for the Curious Vocation of Preaching

By William H. Willimon

Election is a strange word when used in theology. It brings to mind old debates about what God might or might not have done before the foundation of the world. But viewed apart from that historical baggage, the word 'election' is about a central gosp...

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Humor Us!
Preaching and the Power of the Comic Spirit

By Owen Hanley Lynch, Alyce M. McKenzie

Homiletics textbooks often discourage the use of humor in preaching, regarding it as trivializing or distracting. The result is that many preachers have failed to understand humor’s positive power, demoting it to the opening joke to get a guaranteed ...

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Invasion of the Dead
Preaching Resurrection

By Brian K. Blount

Our world and our churches are neither sinful nor lost, they are dead. This dead world is the one that God engages and into which Jesus invaded with a radically different vision of life.In this groundbreaking work, based on his 2011 Yale Beecher lect...

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Lament
Reclaiming Practices in Pulpit, Pew, and Public Square

By Sally A. Brown, Patrick D. Miller

Lament, so prominent in the Christian canon, is neglected in the public worship and witness of most North American congregations. These essays by Princeton Theological Seminary faculty attest to the diverse ways in which lament is understood and prac...

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Preaching the Word
Contemporary Approaches to the Bible for the Pulpit

By Karoline M. Lewis

The question of what to do with the biblical text in the sermon is perennial. Biblical scholarship constantly evolves and grows, making it hard even for biblical scholars themselves to apply the latest insights in their preaching. The average pastor ...

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The Scandal of the Gospel
Preaching and the Grotesque

By Charles L. Campbell

Through its shocking incongruities and transgressive forms, the grotesque offers an intriguing lens for exploring the scandal of the gospel and the challenges of Christian preaching. Drawing on diverse sources—from Swedish crime fiction and contempor...

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Speaking Parables
A Homiletic Guide

By David Buttrick

David Buttrick provides an introduction to the parables with a discussion of particular homiletical issues preachers face in interpreting parables. Speaking Parables includes commentary on thirty-three different parables with suggestions for preachin...

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