28th Festival of HOMILETICS

Preaching a New Earth: Climate and Creation May 18–22, 2020 Virtual Conference

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Welcome 3

Schedule 4

Speakers 10

Vendors and Sponsors 24

Musicians 26 Social Media Join the conversation: Facebook: facebook.com/festhomiletics Goals of the Festival of Homiletics 30 Twitter: @FestHomiletics tweetchat.com/room/Homiletics2020 Certificate of Completion 33 #Homiletics2020

About the Festival of Homiletics 35 festivalofhomiletics.com

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Welcome to the 2020 Festival of Homiletics!

For everyone involved, this has been a step out of our pulpits and buildings and into a liminal space where we needed to discern how God invites us to preach when our churches are closed. When we found out that we couldn’t bring you to Atlanta, our presenters, designers, and worship leaders started working tirelessly to bring the festival to you.

We never imagined the welcome you would extend to us.

At the time of writing, more than 11,000 of you have registered to be with us online, and more than 2,000 have shown your support by purchasing the on-demand recordings. Along with our regular visitors from Canada and the United Kingdom, we’ve had conversations with preachers from Australia, Hungary, and Liberia; at least 56 countries outside the United States are represented in the participant list. Sponsors and vendors have continued to support the mission of the festival even when we couldn’t offer our typical storefront opportunities. I’ve always known that the festival feels like a community, and this year has demonstrated that reality in a new way. Thank you.

It is our deepest prayer that this offering will feed your soul and spark your creativity in preaching for the year to come.

Dawn Alitz Managing Director, Festival of Homiletics

Welcome, preachers, to a new kind of festival for the new world in which we find ourselves. In the past two months, you have had to learn and invent previously unimaginable ways of doing church. You have had to pivot and adapt, developing formerly unfathomable ways of being the body of Christ. And yet, this is what the church knows how to do so well. We have always preached the impossible and proclaimed the unbelievable. We have always known how to testify to the good news in the face of futility. We are the ones who stare into empty tombs and, instead of seeing defeat and despair, know victory and hope.

The theme for the 2020 Festival of Homiletics bears witness to our Creator, who brings that which is dead to life with the very breath of life. In coming together this week, from all over this world God loves so very much, we are reminded once again of God’s promise to make all things new, including the church—including us.

I pray that you experience this week as a life-giving gift and abundant grace.

Karoline Lewis Program Director, Festival of Homiletics

Preaching a New Earth: Climate and Creation | 3 Schedule All times are in ET (Eastern Time)

Monday, May 18 ON-DEMAND BONUS MATERIAL 12 p.m. Introduction and Welcome – Karoline Lewis Lisa Allen-McLaurin – Lecture Sponsored by the Episcopal Preaching Foundation and William Barber II - Lecture Sojourners Traci Blackmon – Lecture Online Worship – Traci Blackmon, “Re-Centering Jesus,” Anna Carter Florence – Lecture Luke 13:10–17 Neichelle Guidry – Sermon Liturgist: Jason Chesnut Katie Hays – Sermon 1 p.m. Lecture – Katharine Hayhoe, “Christians and Climate Raquel S. Lettsome – Sermon Change” Terrance McKinley – Lecture 2 p.m. Lecture – Bill McKibben, “Running Genesis in Reverse: Joy J. Moore – Interview Moral Witness on a Decreating Planet” Otis Moss III – Lecture 3 p.m. Interview – William H. Willimon by Karoline Lewis Leah Schade – Lecture

4 p.m. Music – Ashley Cleveland Matthew Skinner - Sermon William H. Willimon – Sermon Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove – Tuesday, May 19 Sermon

12 p.m. Introduction and Welcome – Anthony Bailey Sponsored by Convergence and Candler School of Theology • You’ll receive an online evaluation following the Online Worship – Otis Moss III, “Living With the Certainty festival. We’d love to hear of Uncertainty,” Luke 24:13–16; 28–31 your thoughts to provide Liturgist: Jason Chesnut an even better experience at next year’s Festival of 1 p.m. Lecture – Ellen F. Davis, “Telling the Plain Truth: Ungodly Homiletics. Facts, Real Power, and Holy Fear” • Have lunch delivered while Sponsored by the Fretheim Lecture Series you watch the Festival of Homiletics. Panera Bread 2 p.m. Sermon – Joy J. Moore, “Breathless Anticipation,” was previously scheduled to Romans 8:18–22 cater the in-person event; place your lunch order at 3 p.m. Interview – Leah Schade by Karoline Lewis delivery.panerabread.com. 4 p.m. Music – Grace Kelly

Wednesday, May 20

12 p.m. Introduction and Welcome – Dawn Hand Sponsored by Working Preacher and Illustrated Ministry

Online Worship – Olu Brown, “Imagine,” Revelation 21:5 Liturgist: Jason Chesnut

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2 p.m. Sermon – Anna Carter Florence, “When We Can Breathe,” Ezekiel 37:1–14

3 p.m. Lecture – Stacey Abrams, “Stewardship, Service, and Redemption: Called to Be God’s Ministers”

4 p.m. Musical Worship Experience – The Many

Thursday, May 21

12 p.m. Introduction and Welcome – Anthony Bailey Sponsored by Yogadevotion and EO Tours

Online Worship – Cynthia Hale, “Don’t Panic, God Is in Control!” Psalm 46:1–11 Liturgist: Jason Chesnut

1 p.m. Lecture – Katie Hays, “Is It True? Does It Matter? Preaching That Saves Lives”

2 p.m. Sermon – Lenny Duncan, “Awaiting the God Who Answers,” Habakkuk 1:1–4, 2:1–4

3 p.m. Interview – Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove by Karoline Lewis

4 p.m. Beer and Hymns – The Fleshpots of Egypt

Friday, May 22

12 p.m. Introduction and Welcome – Dawn Alitz Sponsored by Faith+Lead and Backstory Preaching

Online Worship – Raphael Warnock, “Lament,” Joel 1:2–10 Liturgist: Jason Chesnut

1 p.m. Lecture – Raquel S. Lettsome, “Less Stress Preaching and Prep”

2 p.m. Sermon – Robert Wright, “Like a Deer,” Psalm 42

3 p.m. Interview – Neichelle Guidry by Karoline Lewis

4 p.m. Music – Brendan and Peter Mayer

6 | 2020 Festival of Homiletics WALK WITH THE BOLDNESS AND THE ZEAL OF THE APOSTLES

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Stacey Abrams Anthony Bailey Author, Entrepreneur, Political Leader Lead Minister, Parkdale United Church

Stacey Abrams is a political leader Originally from Barbados, Anthony who has served in the Georgia Bailey has lived and served in House of Representatives and was various parts of Canada, Jamaica, House Minority Leader. Abrams and Kenya. A teacher at heart, became the Democratic nominee for Bailey taught at the McGill governor of Georgia, the first black University joint theological colleges woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a in Montreal and the Theological College of the major party in the United States, and she was the first University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. He black woman to deliver a response to the State of has lectured at the Ottawa School of Theology and the Union. Abrams serves on the Council on Foreign Spirituality, Queen’s University School of Religion, Relations’ Subcommittee on Diversity and has led and North American and Caribbean conferences. His numerous initiatives and organizations, including Fair academic degrees focus on social work, theology, Fight 2020, Fair Count, and the Southern Economic philosophy of religion (liturgical language), and ethics Advancement Project. Abrams earned a master’s and culture. Bailey was awarded the Dreamkeepers’ degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Martin Luther King Jr. Life Achievement Award for Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a Racial Reconciliation. He wrote the biblical and Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School. She is the theological study resource for “Sankofa: The Histories author of “Lead from the Outside,” “Our Time Is Now,” and Heritages of Black Peoples in the United Church and eight romance novels. of Canada.”

Lisa Allen-McLaurin William Barber II Associate Professor of Church Music President, Repairers of the Breach; Co- and Worship, Interdenominational Chair, Poor People’s Campaign; Pastor, Theological Center Greenleaf Christian Church

Lisa Allen-McLaurin is a pastor, William Barber II is the president professor, and public theologian. and senior lecturer of Repairers of She is Helmar E. Nielsen Professor the Breach, co-chair of the Poor of Church Music and Worship People’s Campaign: A National Call and oversees the Master of Arts in liturgical arts for Moral Revival, bishop with the College of Affirming and culture program at the Interdenominational Bishops and Faith Leaders, visiting professor at Theological Center. She is also coordinator of Union Theological Seminary, and pastor of Greenleaf practical ministries for the Sixth Episcopal District Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. She is the author of books including “Revive Us Again” earned a Master of Divinity from the Candler School and “The Third Reconstruction.” Barber is also an of Theology at Emory University and a Master of activist and the architect of the Forward Together Music in music education and Doctor of Philosophy Moral Movement that gained national acclaim with degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. its Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina Allen-McLaurin is the author of “Worship Matters! A General Assembly in 2013. Barber gave the keynote Collection of Practical Essays on the Practical and address at the 2016 Democratic National Convention Spiritual Discipline of Worship” and the sermon series and has appeared in outlets including CNN, The New “Development Comes Before Deliverance,” and she York Times, and The Nation Magazine. is a featured musicologist in the 2015 Emmy award- winning documentary “Reflect, Reclaim, Rejoice: Preserving the Gift of Black Sacred Music.”

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Preaching a New Earth: Climate and Creation | 11 Olu Brown Jason Chesnut Lead Pastor, Impact Church Online Worship Liturgist; Founder, Chief Creative Officer, ANKOSfilms Olujimi Brown serves as the lead pastor of Impact Church, which Jason Chesnut is the founder has been listed as the fifth in and chief creative officer at the 25 Fastest Growing Large ANKOSfilms, a company dedicated United Methodist Churches. to (a) (n)ew (k)ind (o)f (s)torytelling. He earned a Master of Divinity He is ordained in the ELCA, and he created and degree from Gammon Theological Seminary of developed The Slate Project, an innovative Christian the Interdenominational Theological Center and worshiping community that gathers both online and in is the host of the Smart Church podcast. Along person. He is a videographer, mission developer, and with the church, Brown focuses on inclusion, certified biblical storyteller. Chesnut previously served justice, compassion, and supporting a multicultural as a web designer and content developer for the community. Brown’s writings include “Zero to 80: ELCA and as an associate pastor at Central Lutheran Innovative Ideas for Planting and Accelerating Church. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Church Growth,” “Leadership Directions from Moses: the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. On the Way to a Promised Land,” “4D Impact: Smash Barriers Like a Smart Church,” and “Flipping Church: How Successful Church Planters Are Turning Ellen F. Davis Conventional Wisdom Upside-Down.” Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, Duke Divinity School

Anna Carter Florence Ellen F. Davis is the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching, Bible and Practical Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary Duke Divinity School. She previously Anna Carter Florence is a earned a Master of Divinity at the professor of preaching at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a Doctor of Columbia Theological Seminary. Philosophy degree at Yale University, and studied She earned a Master of Divinity theology at Oxford University. Her work explores and Doctor of Philosophy degree the theological interpretation of the Old Testament, from Princeton Theological Seminary. Florence is with particular concern for how the Bible is used an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church to address urgent public issues, and focuses on (USA) and previously served as an associate developing an exegetically based response to the pastor for youth and young adults at Westminster ecological crisis. A lay Episcopalian, she has been Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis. She is the author involved in interfaith dialogue for 40 years. Her of “Preaching as Testimony,” “Inscribing the Word: previous teaching appointments were at Union Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann,” Theological Seminary, Virginia Theological Seminary, and “Rehearsing Scripture: Discovering God’s and Yale Divinity School. She also served as the Word in Community.” She has published numerous interim dean of Duke Divinity School. articles and book chapters, including lectionary text commentaries for Working Preacher. Florence is a frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, with research focused on testimony, preaching pedagogies, and strategies to engage biblical text.

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Lenny Duncan Cynthia Hale Pastor, Messiah Lutheran Church Senior Pastor, Ray of Hope Church

Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of Cynthia Hale is the founding and pastors. Formerly incarcerated, a senior pastor of the Ray of Hope high-school dropout, and a drug Christian Church in Decatur, dealer, Duncan is now a writer, Georgia. She earned a Master of activist, and black preacher Divinity from Duke University and serving Messiah Lutheran Church earned a Doctor of Ministry from in Vancouver, Washington. Duncan serves as board United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Hale chaplain for Reconciling Works, which is an LGBTQIA- established a mentoring program, Elah Pastoral affirming Lutheran ministry that fosters safe spaces Ministries, Inc., and convened the Women in Ministry for queer Christians, and is the executive director Conference. Hale was appointed by President Barack of Emmaus Collective, a network of churches that Obama to serve on the President’s Commission on have agreed to enter into a covenant of measurable White House Fellowships and was inducted into the anti-racism work to dismantle white supremacy. African American Biographies Hall of Fame. Hale He earned a Master of Divinity degree from United has published “More Power in the Pulpit,” preaching Lutheran Seminary and speaks on the intersection resource series “Feasting on the Gospels,” and “I’m of church and race. He is the author of “Dear Church: A Piece of Work.” Hale has received the “Women A Love Letter From a Black Preacher to the Whitest of Power” award from the National Urban League Denomination in the U.S.,” which calls leaders and and earned recognition from Ebony Magazine as an laity alike to the front lines of the church’s renewal influential leader. through racial equality and justice.

Neichelle Guidry Dawn Hand Dean of the Chapel, Director, WISDOM Superintendent, Pittsburgh District, Center at Spelman College Western Pennsylvania Conference, United Methodist Church Neichelle Guidry is the dean of the chapel and the director of Dawn Hand is an ordained the WISDOM Center at Spelman elder and the Pittsburgh District College and is the creator of superintendent of the Western shepreaches, an organization of Pennsylvania Conference of the African American millennial women in ministry. She United Methodist Church. She served on the staff previously served as preacher/pastor-in-residence of the Western North Carolina Conference and has at the Black Theology and Leadership Institute at served on several boards and foundations, including Princeton Theological Seminary, and she was the the United Methodist Communications Board of associate pastor to young adults and liaison to Directors, the Chris Canty Foundation, and the United worship and arts ministries in the office of the senior Methodist Foundation of Western North Carolina. pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ. Guidry Hand served as executive pastor and chief of staff earned a Master of Divinity at Yale Divinity School at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Garrett- D.C., associate pastor at Matthews United Methodist Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has been Church in Matthews, North Carolina, and earned a recognized on top leadership lists by publications Master of Divinity degree from Hood Theological including Ebony, Time, and Sojourners. She is the Seminary. Hand has been active in a variety of author of “Curating a World: Sermonic Words from a local and national initiatives including immigration Young Woman Who Preaches.” reform, alleviating child poverty, ending chronic homelessness, providing affordable housing, LGBTQIA+ advocacy, and Black Lives Matter.

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Preaching a New Earth: Climate and Creation | 17 Bill McKibben Joy J. Moore Author, Educator, Environmentalist Associate Professor of Biblical Preaching, Luther Seminary Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who founded Joy J. Moore is associate professor 350.org, a grassroots climate of biblical preaching at Luther change movement, which has Seminary. She is an ordained organized 20,000 rallies, resistance Methodist pastor who has taught to the Keystone Pipeline project, practical theology and preaching and fossil fuel divestment efforts. He is the author of at several seminaries across the United States. a dozen books, including “The End of Nature,” was She served as the founding associate dean for the previously a staff writer for the New Yorker, and has William E. Pannell Center for African American contributed to various publications, including the Church Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and as the associate dean for church relations, and Rolling Stone. McKibben was named the black church studies, and lifelong learning at Duke Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental University Divinity School. Moore earned an M.Div. Studies at Middlebury College, a fellow of the from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in practical theology one of the most important global thinkers and from Brunel University at London School of Theology. environmentalists by the Boston Globe and Foreign Her writings have appeared in several books and Policy. He has received the Gandhi Prize, the publications, including Sojourners magazine, Thomas Merton Prize, the Right Livelihood Prize, and Christian Century, and Working Preacher. She also honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. serves on the board of directors for Zoe Ministries.

Terrence McKinley Otis Moss III Director of Campaigns and Mobilizing, Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Sojourners Chicago

Terrance McKinley is an itinerant Otis Moss III is a preacher, activist, elder in the African Methodist author, and filmmaker who serves Episcopal Church and is the director as pastor of Trinity United Church of campaigns and mobilizing of Christ in Chicago. He earned a at Sojourners. He serves on the Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity ministerial staff at Reid Temple AME Church, where School and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Chicago he launched the Moral Agenda Summit hosted at Theological Seminary. Moss is an ordained minister the National Press Club, and he helped design and in the Progressive National Baptist Convention and launch the congregation’s Commission on Social the United Church of Christ. He founded Unashamed Action. McKinley was ordained in the AME Church Media Group and won a 2016 NAACP Image award and served as a member of the ministerial staff of for his work, which includes providing biblical context The Greater Allen AME Cathedral of New York. He and theological support to groups including the earned a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Black Lives Matter and occupy movements. He is on Theological Seminary. His leadership on matters the boards of Auburn Seminary and Faith-­In-­Place/ of faith and justice has resulted in recognition from Action Fund, and is chaplain of the Children’s Defense Essence Magazine and his inclusion in The African Fund’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Child Advocacy American Pulpit Journal’s “The 20 to Watch Leaders Conference. He has written numerous works, Under 40.” including “Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World.”

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Leah Schade Raphael Warnock Assistant Professor of Preaching Senior Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church and Worship, Lexington Theological Seminary Raphael Warnock is senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist ILLUSTRATED MINISTRY is Leah Schade is assistant professor Church, where he became the During this new COVID-19 reality, materials for of preaching and worship at youngest person called to the Lexington Theological Seminary. position. He has led social justice your go-to resource for digital faith formation An ordained minister in the ELCA, efforts tied to voting rights, criminal she has served congregations in rural, urban, and justice, public education, health care, and HIV/ churches and families. suburban settings. She earned a Master of Divinity AIDS. Warnock earned a Master of Divinity, Master and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from what is now of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy degree United Lutheran Seminary. Her publications include from Union Theological Seminary, and he has been “Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Board of the Pulpit,” “Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry Preachers. He is the author of “The Divided Mind in the Red-Blue Divide,” “Rooted and Rising: Voices of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis,” and a Witness” and has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, Lenten devotional, “For the Beauty of the Earth.” CBS, The Huffington Post, and Newsweek magazine. Schade has served as an anti-fracking and climate Warnock delivered the closing prayer at the 2013 activist, community organizer, and advocate for Inaugural Prayer Service at the National Cathedral environmental justice issues. and delivered the sermon for the Annual White House Prayer breakfast in March 2016.

Matthew Skinner Professor of New Testament, William H. Willimon Luther Seminary Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity School Matthew Skinner, one of the co-hosts of the popular Sermon For 20 years, William H. Willimon Brainwave podcast, has served was dean of the chapel and on the Luther Seminary faculty professor of Christian ministry at since 2002. He teaches courses Duke University. He served as pastor in the master’s degree programs and in the Doctor of churches in Georgia and South of Ministry in biblical preaching program. His Carolina. A graduate of Wofford College, Willimon research and teaching focus on the Gospels, Acts, earned a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School and the ways the Bible continues to shape Christian and a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Emory identity among its readers and hearers. His most University. He has been awarded honorary degrees LEARN MORE about these materials, including FREE WEEKLY recent publications include the three-volume work from a dozen colleges and universities. In 1992, he “A Companion to the New Testament,” “Intrusive was named the first distinguished alumnus of Yale RESOURCES during COVID-19, and a brand-new Virtual / God, Disruptive Gospel: Encountering the Divine Divinity School. He is the author of 60 books. His in the Book of Acts: Catching Up With the Spirit.” work, “Worship as Pastoral Care,” was selected as one At-Home Vacation Bible School program by visiting us at An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of the 10 most useful books for pastors in 1979 by the (USA), Skinner has contributed to numerous print Academy of Parish Clergy. https://illstrtdm.in/Links and digital resources to help preachers with biblical interpretation. He teaches frequently at workshops and conferences for church leaders.

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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Writer; Speaker; Director, School for Robert Wright Conversion Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a Robert Wright has served as bishop writer and speaker who serves in the Diocese of Atlanta, the as director of the School for first African American to become Conversion education center and an Episcopal bishop in Georgia. is an associate minister at St. Wright earned a degree at Howard John’s Missionary Baptist Church. With his wife, University in Washington, D.C. Leah, Wilson-Hartgrove founded the Rutba House, He worked as a child advocate for two mayors which brings together the formerly homeless with and for the Children’s Defense Fund, and he later the formerly housed. He earned a Master of Divinity earned a certificate in biblical studies at Ridley Hall, degree at Duke Divinity School and is a leader in Cambridge University in England, and a Master the Red Letter Christian movement and the Poor of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary. People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. He received the Harvard Summer Leadership Wilson-Hartgrove is the author and contributor of Certificate and the Certificate in Pastoral Leadership many books, including “Common Prayer: A Liturgy from Oxford University, England. He was awarded for Ordinary Radicals,” “Reconstructing the Gospel,” honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from Virginia and “The New Monasticism.” He is also co-author, Theological Seminary and from the School of with William Barber II, of “The Third Reconstruction: Theology at Sewanee: The University of the South. Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New He was named among the 100 Most Influential Justice Movement.” He speaks in various settings Georgians by Georgia Trend magazine. across the denominational spectrum.

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Nashville, Tennessee-based Ashley An unequivocal musical prodigy, Cleveland is a three-time Grammy singer-saxophonist-songwriter- Award-winner and two-time Dove composer and bandleader Grace Award-winner who has released Kelly has rocked the jazz world with eight critically acclaimed albums. sold-out concerts, 13 acclaimed Her album “God Don’t Never Change” features albums, and a resume that includes performing at songs described as being rooted firmly in a “host of the Hollywood Bowl and as part of the house band traditions—black spirituals, folk songs, 18th-century for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”—all before hymns, gospel blues, and jubilee.” The album was reaching her mid-twenties. She also curates an nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award for Best immersive user experience for fans across multiple Traditional Gospel Album. social media platforms, which has earned millions of views online.

The Fleshpots of Egypt The Many Bluegrass/Folk Band Worship Band

Based out of The Many is a liturgically Luther Seminary, grounded, new kind of this eclectic band worship band and an of string-benders intentionally diverse and chord-busters collective creating music explores how Lutheran worship would sound if the for people who want to Reformation had started in Appalachia. Members do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with a God include Jeff Engholm, Rolf Jacobson, Scott Simmons, who loves the world. With a sound that resonates and Steve Thompson. with gospel, pop, and folk, The Many’s feet-on-the- ground, heart-in-hands, scars-revealed, wild and holy music of resistance and hope have made them an important creative voice in the movement for inclusion, anti-racism, and justice-building within the church and beyond.

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The Festival of Homiletics is a weeklong conference created the festival as an extension of his preaching that brings together a wide variety of outstanding journal, Lectionary Homiletics. preachers and professors of homiletics to inspire a discourse about preaching, worship, and culture. The festival’s ownership, leadership, and planning The event’s goal is to theologically engage the efforts are now based at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, practices of preaching and worship, as well as Minnesota. Howell continues to consult festival staff issues related to congregations in the 21st century. in the planning and production process in light of its Individual preachers are invited to consider various new team approach: “We continue to demonstrate styles and methodologies of preaching in hopes that for people the finest preaching and the finest cutting- they will renew their faith and refresh their spirits edge thinking about preaching, homiletics, church, through engaging worship, lectures, and workshops. and culture.” Throughout the week, speakers aim to inspire Festival of Homiletics speakers throughout the years preachers in their roles of proclaiming the gospel. have included William Barber II, Nadia Bolz-Weber, The Festival of Homiletics began in 1992 with a Barbara Brown Taylor, Walter Brueggemann, Diana gathering of 400 pastors from around the country Butler Bass, Anna Carter Florence, Yvette Flunder, for the purpose of learning and conversing about Otis Moss III, Luke Powery, Will Willimon, and preaching in a contemporary context. David Howell, Andrew Young. an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church,

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• The Festival of Homiletics is an annual event that averages more than 1,500 attendees each year and has moved between cities including Atlanta; Under 40 Denver; Minneapolis; Nashville, Tennessee; San 19% Antonio; and Washington, D.C. Women Men 41–60 yrs. 63% 37% 53% • Broadly ecumenical, 73% of attendees have 61 yrs. + advanced graduate degrees (M.Div., D.Min., and 28% Ph.D.) while 31% have been preaching more than 25 years. Solo pastors account for 45% of attendees. Gender Age • Each year, two participants receive 50% off registration costs for the following year. An evaluation is sent to registered participants to Denomination garner feedback on how to improve the event, and Baptist 3% the two winners are drawn from a pool of those Episcopal and Anglican 6% who complete the evaluation. Lutheran 42% *2019 statistics Presbyterian 14% United Church of Christ 9% United Methodist 13% Other 13%

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