The Preaching Development Corner

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Welcome to The African American Lectionary’s Preaching Development Corner. Here you will find some of the most important and in many cases historical essays ever written concerning preaching, specifically black preaching. Subjects include: a brief history of black Preaching, sermon construction, preparing funeral sermons, homosexuality and preaching, womanist preaching, prosperity preaching, doctrinal preaching, prophetic preaching, the inward preparation of the preacher, and more.

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ESSAYS ON BLACK PREACHING


Henry H. Mitchell

A Brief History of Black Preaching

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J. Alfred Smith Sr.

Styles of Preaching

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Debrah J. Mumford

Prosperity Preaching & The Word of Faith Movement

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Katie Geneva Cannon

Sermon Transitions
Common Errors in the Body of the Sermon
Concluding a Sermon

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William C. Turner Jr.

From Scribble to Script: A Spirituality of Preaching

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Gardner C. Taylor

Building a Sermon

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Warren H. Stewart, Sr.

Preaching in a Common Tongue

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Rachel St. Clair

Exegesis and Preaching

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Interpreting Scripture to Write a Sermon

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Brad R. Braxton

The Dimensions of a Funeral Sermon

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Imagination for Proclamation

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Frank A. Thomas

Funerals and the Good News

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William B. McClain

African American Preaching and the Bible

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Robert Smith Jr.

Doctrinal Preaching

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James Earl Massey

Designing Narrative, Expository, & Doctrinal Sermons

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Samuel DeWitt Proctor

Sermon Preparation

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Peter J. Gomes

The Bible and Homosexuality

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Olin P. Moyd

A Theology of Preaching
Style in the African American Preaching Tradition

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James A. Forbes, Jr.

Preaching and the Holy Spirit

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Teresa L. Fry Brown

Womanist Preaching

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Marvin A. McMickle

Prophetic Preaching

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Dale P. Andrews

Reassessing the Prophetic Voice of Black Theology

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Youtha C. Hardman-Cromwell

Combating Heterosexism with Scripture

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