Issue: Volume 19 Issue 13

  • Preaching must be from—and to—the margins

    Preaching must be from—and to—the margins

    Gennifer Brooks began her presentations for the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary  (AMBS) Theological Lectureship the same way she begins the preaching classes she teachers—with the story in Luke 4 of Jesus reading from Isaiah in the temple. The homiletics professor at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Ill., uses that text because it illustrates that a preacher…