Pre-Festival Intensive Workshop with
Anna Carter
Florence
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| When: | Monday, April 23, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. (Festival begins at 4:00 p.m.) |
| Where: | Plymouth Church/Festival Site |
| Who: | Interested preachers who wish to take advantage of this opportunity |
| Registration Limit: | 15 participants, first come, first serve |
| Registration Cost: | $100 |
| Focus of Workshop: | "Preaching the Verbs" If you do a quick survey of any bible passage, you’ll find that what is true in life is also true in scripture: the verbs dominate. Not adjectives; verbs. It’s what we do and don’t do that preoccupies human beings. And it’s the verbs we cannot imagine for ourselves (live, liberate, forgive, resurrect) that the church offers, and that we reach for, week after week. So what happens when we read scripture and let the verbs lead? In this conference, Anna puts a twist on dramatic theory and invites us to read the biblical “script” by focusing on the verbs that are given and chosen by the characters. What new things will we see and hear in both our sacred text and our human drama when we connect the verbs? How can that, in turn, change and renew our preaching? |
| Presenter: |  Anna Carter Florence holds the Peter Marshall Chair of Homiletics at
Columbia Theological Seminary. Florence joined the seminary faculty in 1998.
Nationally acclaimed as a preacher and lecturer, Florence is the author of
the book Preaching as Testimony (Westminster/John Knox, 2007). In addition,
she served as editor of Inscribing the Text: Recent Sermons and Prayers by
Walter Brueggemann (Fortress, 2004), and she is the author of numerous
articles on preaching and homiletics. She received a B.A. degree from Yale
University and the M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton Theological
Seminary. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she served
as associate pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, MN,
from 1988 to 1993. |
Pre-Festival Intensive Workshop with
Tom Long
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| When: | Monday, April 23, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. (Festival begins at 4:00 p.m.) |
| Where: | Plymouth Church/Festival Site |
| Who: | Interested preachers who wish to take advantage of this opportunity |
| Registration Limit: | 15 participants, first come, first serve |
| Registration Cost: | $100 |
| Focus of Workshop: | "Reading Other People's Mail: Preaching from the New Testament Epistles" Once honored but now often neglected, the preaching of the epistles may now, because of changes in the cultural and communicational climate, be a timely matter. We will explore fresh possibilities for preaching from the epistles of the New Testament by examining the rhetorical possibilities in the ancient letter form, the ways in which ideas "move" in the NT letters, and the connections between themes in the epistles and cultural issues current today. |
| Presenter: |  Dr. Thomas G. Long is the Bandy Professor of Preaching and Coordinator of
the Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology at the
Emory/Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Long's research
interests are contemporary homiletical theory, biblical hermeneutics and
preaching. Long's 1989 book The Witness of Preaching—now in its second
edition—is one of the most widely used texts on preaching, appearing on
class reading lists in seminaries across the country and world. In 2010,
Preaching magazine named The Witness of Preaching one of the 25 most
influential books in preaching for the last 25 years. Long's book Preaching
from Memory to Hope was named as one of the "top ten books for parish
ministry published in 2009" by the Academy of Parish Clergy. He received
B.A. and M.Div. degrees from Erskine College and a Ph.D. from Princeton
Theological Seminary. The author of 19 books to date, Long is a frequent
contributor to The Christian Century and the Journal for Preachers, and a
popular presenter at preaching conferences worldwide. He is an ordained
minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). |
