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Poetry and Preaching: Learning from the Proclamation and the Pause: In hearing a poem, we are invited into the play between words and space, statement and silence. This workshop will explore a couple poetic forms and examine what they might teach us for our preaching. We’ll look at some poems by Marilyn Nelson, Tracy K. Smith, Joy Ladin, Padraig O’Tuama, Leila Chatti, and others. We’ll explore persona poems, erasure and found poems, and end with a writing exercise, with the purpose of creating a short piece suitable for using in a devotional or worship setting.  Workshop led by: Rev. Kathryn Lester-Bacon

Dialogical Preaching Workshop
This workshop will both invite and teach participants to re-imagine preaching as dialogue and communal proclamation. The workshop will dive into the theological underpinnings for dialogical preaching, how it is particularly powerful for preaching in these times, and the way dialogical preaching can help restructure worship into more anti-racist, anti-hierarchical, anti-patriarchal ways. Participants don’t have to already be in an alternative or “contemporary” church setting to begin dialogical preaching. This workshop will help all gathered take the gifts of dialogical preaching and being to make sense of the possibilities in their own contexts. Workshop led by: Rev. Megan M. Pardue and Rev. Molly Brummett Wudel