PREACHING TOWARD SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION (HMRS-8200)

Through readings, seminar and online discussion, preparation and preaching of a sermon, oral and written sermon responses, students will investigate and present homiletical possibilities for and challenges of preaching toward social transformation. Students will craft and preach a sermon focusing on a particular public issue 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. This course is offered as a seven-week intensive at the beginning of the spring semester. This is a seven-week course at the beginning of the semester. [Prerequisites: RSFT-1300: Introduction to Faith-Rooted Social Transformation and HM-2245: Biblical Preaching (or another approved foundational preaching course) Max Enrollment: 12]