Preaching and Social Issues

Tools and Tactics for Empowering Your Prophetic Voice

Leah D. Schade (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-8761-6 (ISBN)

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How can preachers address social issues in their sermons given the divisiveness and polarization in society and churches? Preaching Social Issues equips preachers to craft sermons that help congregations talk about topics of public concern based on a strong biblical foundation, solid theological claims, and prudent sermonic strategies. Informed by years of research and trainings with clergy and congregations, Rev. Dr. Leah Schade provides practical and pastoral guidance for preachers to find their prophetic voice for their own context with integrity and wisdom.

Preaching Social Issues also offers an assessment tool for gauging readers risk and capacity for preaching about social issues. Schade suggests three approaches to a sermon addressing a social issue: Gentle Prophet, Invitational Prophet, and Robust Prophet, based on the preacher’s vulnerability, characteristics of the congregation, and the quality of relationships between and among the congregation and preacher. The book includes strategies, tactics, and tips to support and equip preachers who choose to address social issues in their sermon, along with exercises and sermons and case studies that illustrate different approaches for preaching about contemporary topics.

The Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade is the Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship at Lexington Theological Seminary in Lexington, Kentucky. An ordained Lutheran minister (ELCA) for more than twenty years, she has pastored three Pennsylvania congregations in suburban, urban, and rural contexts. Her book, Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide(Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), explores how clergy and congregations can address controversial social issues using nonpartisan, biblically-centered approaches and deliberative dialogue. She is also the author of Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit, as well as For the Beauty of the Earth, a Creation-centered Lenten devotional. She is co-editor and author with Margaret Bullitt-Jonas of Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis(Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), and co-author with Jerry Sumney of Apocalypse When?: A Guide to Interpreting and Preaching Apocalyptic Texts. She is the lead author, with Elizabeth Askew and Jerry Sumney, of Introduction to Preaching: Scripture, Theology, and Sermon Preparation(Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Rev. Dr. Schade is also the EcoPreacher blogger for Patheos.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.12.2024
Vorwort	Lisa L. Thompson
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	1-5381-8761-2 / 1538187612
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-8761-6 / 9781538187616
Zustand	Neuware