Shaping Sermons to Nurture Justice: 

A Workshop on Prophetic Preaching

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2012 Dates TBA

StonyPoint Center, StonyPoint NY:  March 25-28, 2011

“Preach the Gospel by all means; and if necessary, use words.”

The Beatitudes Society's Prophetic Preaching Workshop is Not a Contest - not a Prize, but a Process.

Each year the Preaching Workshop offers Peer learning that is

• Collegial
• Ecumenical
• Small   

  The workshop demonstrated that preaching is a uniquely powerful medium for a certain kind of truth-telling: telling the truth in such a way as to inspire work for justice. This conference was a wonderful complement – and challenge – to the work that I do at seminary. I know that the work that we did together will inform my ministry for years to come.

  Martin Elfert, Church Divinity School of the Pacific
  2010 Preaching Scholarship Recipient

As we are listening each other into speech, voices are empowered by

• a sense of solidarity
• being grounded in our own authentic preaching voices
• feeling confident
• knowing they are supported
• being connected to caring peers

What the preachers from the inaugural 2009 Prophetic Preaching Workshop said:

• “I learned more in those few days than I often do in classes that last an entire quarter.”
• “If the Beatitudes Society had to choose only one thing to do that would support its mission this would be it.”
• “This is what we should be doing more of.”

Application deadline is January 15, 2011

StonyPoint Center, StonyPoint NY:  March 25-28, 2011

2011 Workshop Facilitators/Mentors:

The Rev. Dr. David J. Schlafer has taught philosophy, theology, and homiletics at a number of seminaries in different denominational traditions.  He conducts conference on preaching across the United States and in England.  He has edited or authored eighteen books including Surviving the Sermon, Your Way with God's Word, Playing with Fire, and Preaching What We Practice (with Timothy Sedgwick).

The Rev. Ronald David, M.D., is the chaplain and CPE supervisor at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles, CA.  He is a pediatric neurologist, Episcopal priest, chaplain, and recently certified Diplomate in CPSP. As a supervisor in clinical pastoral education, he experiences chaplaincy as the perfect melding of clinical theology and medicine. Troubled by the distortions and misunderstandings of theological concepts as represented in medical science and care, Ronald is writing a book on the relationship between health, spirituality, and religion.

The Rev. Anne S. Howard is the Executive Director of The Beatitudes Society. An Episcopal priest, she is the author of Claiming the Beatitudes: Nine Stories from a New Generation. Former Associate Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, California, she is now is Preacher-in-Residence at Trinity.