Birthing the Sermon

jana Childers

Description

Where do preachers get their ideas for sermons, and how do they turn those ideas into great sermons week after week? Sharing their experiences, these dynamic women preachers take us through their process from conception, through development, to the actual delivery of the sermon and beyond. Each chapter includes a sermon that illustrates the results of that preacher's labor of love. Contributors include: Barbara Shires Blaisdell, Teresa L. Fry Brown, Jana Childers, Linda L. Clader, Yvette Flunder, Mary G. Graves, Linda Carolyn Loving, Barbara K. Lundblad, Karen Stokes, Barbara Brown Taylor, Mary Donovan Turner, Margaret Moers Wenig.

Sujets

• Sermons
• Philosophie et théologie
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: Chalice Press
• Date de parution: 31 mai 2001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780827202436
• Langue: English

Extrait

B irthing the Sermon

WOMEN PREACHERS on the CREATIVE PROCESS

Jana Childers EDITOR

© Copyright 2001 by Chalice Press. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse content, please contact Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, [phone], www.copyright.com. Bible quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from theNew Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Biblical quotations marked (JPS) are taken fromThe TANAKH, the new JPS translation according to the taditional Hebrew text,copyright © 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

The photographs on pages 147 and 149 are the work of Dusty Stokes and were taken at Montclair Presbyterian Church.

The following materials in this book are used by permission: Linda Clader, “Homily for the Feast of the Visitation.” FromPreaching through the Year of Luke: Sermons That Work IX,ed. by Roger Alling and David J. Schlafer, Morehouse Publishing. Mary Oliver, “For poems are not words, after all.” FromA Poetry Handbookby Mary Oliver, Harcourt Brace and Co., Publishers. Marge Piercy, “To be of use.” FromCircles on the Waterby Marge Piercy, copyright © 1982 by Marge Piercy. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Barbara Brown Taylor, “Bothering God.” Copyright 1999, Barbara Brown Taylor. All rights reserved. Reprinted fromHome By Another WayBarbara Brown Taylor; published by by Cowley Publications, 28 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111. www.cowley.org (1-800-225-1534).

Cover photograph: © D. Jeanene Tiner Cover and interior design: Elizabeth Wright Art direction: Elizabeth Wright

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Library of Congress Cataloging–in–Publication Data Birthing the sermon : women preachers on creative process / edited by Jana Childers. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN-10: 0-827202-30-X ISBN-13: 978-0-827202-30-6 1. Preaching 2. Women clergy. I. Childers, Jana. II. Title. BV4211.3 .B57 2001 251' .0082—dc21 00–011839 Printed in the United States of America

In Memory Of Lucy Atkinson Rose

CONTENTS

Introduction Contributors Barbara Shires Blaisdell Mother to Mother: Centered in a Circle of Need Teresa L. Fry Brown A Love Letter Written in Blood Jana Childers A Shameless Path Linda L. Clader Homily for the Feast of the Visitation Yvette Flunder Managing the Thorn Mary G. Graves Jesus Christ Superstar Linda Carolyn Loving Bird’s Nest or Hornet’s Nest? Barbara K. Lundblad After Emmaus Karen Stokes Inbreeding

Barbara Brown Taylor Bothering God Mary Donovan Turner Not Silent Margaret Moers Wenig “Their Lives a Page Plucked from a Holy Book” Notes

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