Preaching Toward Social Transformation

Catalog description

Through readings, seminar and online discussion, preparation and preaching of sermons, oral and written sermon responses, students will investigate and present homiletical possibilities for and challenges of preaching toward social transformation. Students will preach a sermon focusing on a particular public issue, food (in)justice, explored collaboratively in class. Throughout the course, students will intentionally engage the homiletical tasks of 1) keeping the Bible in one hand and the "newspaper" in the other, and 2) collaborating with a variety of conversation partners. Pre-requisites; RSFT-1300 AND HM-2245