Learning Together to Preach: How to Become an Effective Preaching Coach - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 166674381X ISBN 13: 9781666743814

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2023

Synopsis

Preaching is best learned and improved when preachers receive excellent, supportive reflection on their lived experiences and sermons. For nearly ten years at Vanderbilt Divinity School a group of scholars and practicing preachers joined together to develop and hone several models of peer-group and individual coaching. In this book, they describe the key dimensions of "collaborative coaching," a learner-centered approach to coaching that emphasizes covenant-building, deep spiritual curiosity, care-filled listening, ethical awareness, attention to bodies and places, parallel learning, careful sermon analysis, and the art of asking excellent questions. In the final section of the book, practitioners provide examples of this kind of coaching in practice.

About this title

About the Author

John S. McClure is the Charles G. Finney Professor Emeritus of Preaching and Worship at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He is the author of Speaking Together and with God (2018) and Ethical Approaches to Preaching (Cascade Books, 2021). Allie Utley is assistant professor of liturgy and practical theology at Phillips Theological Seminary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 166674381X
• ISBN 13: 9781666743814
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: McClure John S., Utley Allie