Resources I have built for students, ministers, and teachers of preaching and practical theology. Feel free to use them in your own classes and congregations.
Bibliographies
- Practical Theology (2024)
- Spiritual Formation (2024)
- Paul (2024)
- Preaching (2022)
- The Theology of Preaching (2022)
- Preaching the Old Testament (2019)
- Black Preaching (2020) and African American Preaching (Brad Braxton)
Tools for Preaching and Research
- Exegetical Working Paper: my step-by-step guide from text to sermon (revised 2013)
- Syllabi for homiletics, preaching the Old Testament, Paul, and the theology of ministry
- A Guide for Student Study and Writing
- African American Preaching Resources
- Black Women Theologians and Arab Women Theologians
- My top ten books for homiletics
Recommended Sites
- Revised Common Lectionary at Vanderbilt Divinity Library
- Working Preacher from Luther Seminary
- Homiletic, the open-access journal of the Academy of Homiletics, and the Academy of Homiletics
- Duke University Chapel for hearing sermons
- Studying Congregations for ethnographic and congregational research
- ACU Library distance resources
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library for early church and classic texts
- Academic Bible for original-language texts
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Paul Ricoeur
Classic Texts for Preachers
- Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, book 4: the first homiletics textbook
- Aristotle, Poetics and Rhetoric
- William H. Willimon and Richard Lischer, eds., Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995)
- Paul Scott Wilson, ed., The New Interpreter’s Handbook of Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon, 2008)
African American Preaching in Churches of Christ, a DVD presentation and interviews (Cullen Grant, 2002–2003), is archived at the Abilene Christian University Library.