Participation Type
Paper
Session Title
Sounds and Silences
Presentation #1 Title
The Sermons of the Appalachian Preaching Mission 1958-1977
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
The Appalachian Preaching Mission was an annual event that took place in Johnson City and other Tennessee cities from 1955 to 1986. A 1968 history of the Mission states that its purpose “was to allow the people of the area to hear great preachers that they would not ordinarily have the opportunity to hear.” Some of those preachers lived in or near Johnson City; others came from as far away as Arizona, California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Robert H. Ellison is Associate Professor of English and director of the Center for Sermon Studies at Marshall University. He is the co-editor (with Keith Francis) of A Companion to Preaching and the Sermon: The Twentieth Century, which is under contract with Brill; he is also the lead curator of The Library of Appalachian Preaching: A Digital Repository of Sermons.
The Sermons of the Appalachian Preaching Mission 1958-1977
The Appalachian Preaching Mission was an annual event that took place in Johnson City and other Tennessee cities from 1955 to 1986. A 1968 history of the Mission states that its purpose “was to allow the people of the area to hear great preachers that they would not ordinarily have the opportunity to hear.” Some of those preachers lived in or near Johnson City; others came from as far away as Arizona, California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
