TY  - SER
ED  - Union Presbyterian Seminary
TI  - Interpretation: Preaching: a chorus of witnesses
SN  - 0020-9643
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Los Angeles, Calif. [u.a.]
PB  - Sage
N2  - 99 Contributors  100 Editorial  Richard W. Voelz  102 On Shrieking the Truth: Mary and Proclamatory Wailing  Donyelle C. McCray   Drawing on examples of the Virgin Mary, Margery Kempe, and Mothers of the Movement, this article explores wailing  as a form of prophetic speech. According to Christian tradition, the Virgin Mary wailed at the crucifixion, and her cries  constituted a substantive message of judgment and lament. Many in the medieval church considered her a preeminent  preacher. Margery Kempe, a medieval pilgrim preacher, and the Mothers of the Movement, African American activistmourners, also herald a divine message through wailing. In illuminating this form of bearing witness, this essay considers  the sonic dimensions of the gospel, the authority of the preacher, and the nature of divine revelation.  112 The Edge of Water: Preaching Sovereignty in Rising Tides  Jerusha Matsen Neal   This analysis of two Fijian Methodist sermons responding to climate catastrophe argues for the significance of  preaching that emerges from displaced and occupied communities, particularly for Christianities shaped by Western  colonialism. Not only do these testimonies call the Western church to repentance, they challenge the West’s overeager cooption of “place” as a theological project. In their proclamation of ontological alternatives to Western political  and epistemological sovereignties, these sermons call listeners – and preachers – to a radical relationality with the  world and with God.  123 Preaching by the Rivers of Babylon: How an Exile from Pulpit and Pew Can Change White Preaching  On the Other Side of Pandemic  Casey T. Sigmon   Preaching platforms have always influenced the message preachers prepare and the message people receive, for  good and for ill. The shift from the pulpit platform to social media platforms during stay-at-home orders due to the  COVID-19 pandemic reveals a legacy of White supremacy haunting the sanctuary. This essay explores this legacy, its  relationship with technoculture, and its impact on the practice of White preaching.  134 Questions for Conversational Preaching  Richard W. Voelz   This essay considers the role of questions within sermons in dialogue with efforts to develop an ethos of conversational  preaching. Questions reveal much about who preachers are, how they relate to listeners, and how they envision the  homiletical situation. And in so doing, they continue to highlight the relationship between theology and rhetoric in  preaching  Between Text and Sermon  146 Isaiah 52:1–7  Claire George Drumheller  149 Mark 1:9–15  Gennifer Brooks  152 1 Corinthians 9:8–18  Jacob D. Myers  Major Reviews  155 The Overshadowed Preacher: Mary, The Spirit, and the Labor of  Proclamation  by Jerusha Matsen Neal  Karoline M. Lewis  158 The Beauty of Preaching: God’s Glory in Christian Proclamation  by Michael Pasquarello III   Robert W. Brewer  161 Preaching the Luminous Word: Biblical Sermons and Homiletical Essays  by Ellen F. Davis with Austin McIver Dennis  Frances Taylor Gench  164 Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels  by Craig S. Keener  Sarah E. Rollens  167 Shorter Reviews  186 Book Notes
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