Unmasking White Preaching

Lis Valle-Ruiz is assistant professor of homiletics and worship and director of community worship life at McCormick Theological Seminary.Andrew Wymer is assistant professor of liturgical studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.

• Racial Hegemony in Homiletics1. The Missionary Connection: White Preaching in the British Colonies of the CaribbeanGennifer Benjamin Brooks2. Unmasking the Homiletical Whiteness of Jerry Falwell Sr. and the Moral Majority Debra J. Mumford3. The Towering Sermon: Duke Chapel as Monument to White Supremacy Peace Pyunghwa Lee and David Stark4. Theorizing about the Whiteness of Asian American Homiletics Gerald C. Liu5. White Mainline Protestant Preachers Addressing Racial Issues: 2017 v. 2021 Leah D. Schade6. Civility and the “Purple Church”: An Insufficient Response to White Supremacy Andrew Thompson Scales7. Resisting White Fragility: Preaching towards Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation in Canada Sarah Travis8. Through a Glass Dimly: White Preaching and Epistemological Ignorance Christopher M. BakerResistance and Possibilities in Homiletics9. Multi-Tasking Preaching: The Liberating Power of Unmasking Whiteness from the PulpitHyeRan Kim-Cragg10. Wrestling with Whiteness in Homiletic Pedagogy: A Reflection on Teaching “Proclaiming Justice in the Church & Public Square” Richard W. Voelz11. Of Handmaids, Mediatrixes and Mothers: The Idealized Feminine and Rhetorics of Whiteness Jerusha Matsen Neal12. Betraying White Preaching: Homiletical Domination, Racial Treason, and the Pursuit of Abolition Andrew Wymer13. Who Are You?: White Identity Formation and Re-Formation in Homiletics Suzanne Wenonah Duchesne14. Non-Preaching?: Unmasking [White] Preaching Through Negation Lis Valle-Ruiz15. An Icon of Exclusion: Deconstructing the Pulpit through the Homiletical Practice of Black Women Chelsea Brooke Yarborough