The Rev. Dr. John McClure, an ordained minister in the PC(USA) who taught homiletics at both Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, is delivering three talks this week as part of the Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School.
제가 임시 목사로서 이 교회에서 사역을 시작했을 때, 한 달에 한 번 설교하는 것이 처음 계약 내용이었습니다. 한동안 교회에는 목회자가 없었기 때문에 사람들은 다양한 목회자가 설교하는 것에 익숙해져 있었습니다. 회중과 연결되어 있는 다양한 문화권의 목회자 뿐 아니라, 사역장로도 때때로 설교를 했습니다. 저는 이를 회중이 설교단에서 다른 목소리, 다른 관점, 성경에 대한 다른 해석, 다른 언어를 들을 수 있는 기회, 즉 '설교의 축제'라고 생각하고 싶습니다.
Cuando comencé mi ministerio con la congregación donde sirvo como pastora temporal, mi contrato inicial incluía predicar un domingo al mes. La iglesia, debido a que había estado sin personal pastoral por algún tiempo, se había acostumbrado a escuchar muchas voces diferentes desde el púlpito. Además, había muchas pastoras y pastoras de diferentes culturas que eran parte de la congregación de una manera u otra que predicaban, y también algunos ancianos y ancianas gobernantes que también predicaban de vez en cuando.
When I began my ministry with the congregation where I serve as a temporary pastor, my initial contract included preaching one Sunday a month. Because the church had been without a pastor for some time, they grew accustomed to listening to many different voices from the pulpit. In addition to multiple pastors from a variety of cultures, who were connected to the congregation in some way or another, ruling elders also preached from time to time.
A book published last month by Westminster John Knox Press, “Fractured Ground: Preaching in the Wake of Mass Trauma,” offers help to preachers and community leaders who are called to speak and respond to mass trauma.
Each week, preachers make their way to the pulpit — whether wooden or virtual — to deliver a sermon to congregants living in a nation that’s increasingly polarized.
Dr. Tom Long was in an airport terminal last Saturday when this announcement got everyone’s attention: Please observe a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. to remember the people killed in the 9/11 attacks 20 years before.
Their place at the pulpit offers Presbyterian preachers a weekly opportunity to persuade parishioners of the power and reach of God’s love for them — as well as hundreds of other messages found in Scripture.
The Rev. Dr. Ted A. Smith, Professor of Preaching and Ethics in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, presented the fourth and final 2021 Sprunt Lecture Wednesday, hosted by Union Presbyterian Seminary. The final virtual lecture was followed by a Q&A session on the overall lecture theme “No Longer Shall they Teach One Another: The End of Theological Education.”
The Rev. Kamal Hassan used a cartoon to open his turn to lead Saturday’s edition of The Preaching Lab, a five-part online workshop offered by New Hope Presbyterian Church in Anaheim, California.