Preaching and Social Issues

Tools and Tactics for Empowering Your Prophetic Voice

Leah D. Schade (Author) , Lisa L. Thompson (Foreword)

Preaching and Social Issues

Tools and Tactics for Empowering Your Prophetic Voice

Leah D. Schade (Author) , Lisa L. Thompson (Foreword)

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Preaching and Social Issues: Tools and Tactics for Empowering Your Prophetic Voice equips preachers to craft sermons that help congregations talk about topics of public concern based on strong ethical, biblical, and theological foundations as well as prudent sermonic strategies. Informed by years of research with clergy and congregations, Leah D. Schade provides practical and pastoral guidance for preachers to find their prophetic voice for their context with integrity and wisdom.
Preaching and Social Issues offers an assessment tool for gauging risk and capacity for preaching about social issues and suggests three approaches—Gentle, Invitational, and Robust. This book includes case studies and sermons that illustrate different approaches for preaching about contemporary topics.

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Published	Nov 19 2024
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	278
ISBN	9781538187616
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	7 BW Photos, 17 Textboxes
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Leah D. Schade

Foreword

Lisa L. Thompson

There are few voices with the moral clarity, spiritual depth, and profound insight of Leah Schade. Preaching and Social Issues is a must read for any who desires to speak to the prophetic urgency of our times.

Frank L. Thomas, Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Homiletics at Christian Theological Seminary
Drawing from solid research, rich examples, and relevant sources across a variety of disciplines, Leah Schade offers a welcome set of tools and strategies for preaching about social justice across a wide range of congregational settings—as well as different preachers' own strengths and vulnerabilities. This wise and practical book should be at every preacher's right hand as we craft sermons that will speak the gospel wherever we are called to serve!

The Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, CB Johnson Professor Emerita of Psychology and Religion, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Many ingredients go into effective preaching on social issues: analyzing the issue, engaging in situational and congregational study, reading biblical and theological resources, deciding what ethical and homiletical approach to take, and consulting the helpful wisdom and model sermons of those who have gone before us. Leah Schade helps the reader gather all these ingredients in one accessible place. Preaching and Social Issues is a timely, wise, and immensely helpful book!

John S. McClure, Charles G. Finney Professor of Preaching and Worship, Vanderbilt Divinity School
Gospel-talk about social issues by pastors of congregations in a polarizing society requires consideration, study, and skill. Rev. Dr. Leah Schade presents Gentle, Invitational, and Robust options that allow preachers to bring a Christian heart and mind to the intersection of any congregation with society. Schade offers data about congregational life and shares the work of several scholars of social gospel preaching. I advise readers to put on an ecumenical hat and take time for careful study.

Rev. Gregory Heille, Aquinas Institute of Theology, editor of Preaching Racial Justice