The Art of Black Preaching
From the Editor-in-Chief
We are pleased to present Sermon Studies' first special issue, The Art of Black Preaching. Guest edited by Andre E. Johnson (University of Memphis) and Courtney V. Buggs (Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN), it features eight articles on topics ranging from womanist approaches to teaching preaching to eulogies delivered by Louis Farrakhan (for Clay Evans) and Benjamin Elijah Mays (for Martin Luther King, Jr.).Articles
“Jesus is Integrated”: The Black Sermon as Rhetorical Exercise in Radical Worldmaking
Theon E. Hill and Tyran Laws
Black Preaching as a Public Address to Cultural Trauma: The Eulogy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nicole D. McDonald
From Decay to Redemption: Exploring the Theological and Rhetorical Dimensions of C.A.W. Clark’s “The Worms Got Him”
Daylan Woodall
Rhetoric of Freedom: The Black Church and Jamal Bryant’s Sermon “Am I Ever Going to Get Out of This?”
Konysha Wade
