This book unmasks and destabilizes the white, colonial hegemony that continues to shape the field of homiletics today and explores alternative, non-dominant homiletical pathways toward a more just future for the church and the world.

This book examines the impact of white racialization in homiletics. The first section, Racial Hegemony, interrogates the white, colonial bias of Euro-American homiletical practice, pedagogy, and theory with particular attention to the intersection of preaching and racialization. The second section, Resistance and Possibilities, contributes diverse critical homiletical approaches emerging in conversation with racially-minoritized scholarship and racially subjugated knowledge and practice. By reading this book, preachers and professors of preaching will encounter alternative, non-dominant homiletical pathways toward a more just future for the church and the world.

Racial Hegemony in Homiletics

1. The Missionary Connection: White Preaching in the British Colonies of the Caribbean

Gennifer Benjamin Brooks

2. Unmasking the Homiletical Whiteness of Jerry Falwell Sr. and the Moral Majority

Debra J. Mumford

3. The Towering Sermon: Duke Chapel as Monument to White Supremacy

Peace Pyunghwa Lee and David Stark

4. Theorizing about the Whiteness of Asian American Homiletics Gerald C. Liu

5. White Mainline Protestant Preachers Addressing Racial Issues: 2017 v. 2021 Leah D. Schade

6. Civility and the “Purple Church”: An Insufficient Response to White Supremacy

Andrew Thompson Scales

7. Resisting White Fragility: Preaching towards Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation in Canada Sarah Travis

8. Through a Glass Dimly: White Preaching and Epistemological Ignorance Christopher M. Baker

Resistance and Possibilities in Homiletics

9. Multi-Tasking Preaching: The Liberating Power of Unmasking Whiteness from the Pulpit

HyeRan Kim-Cragg

10. Wrestling with Whiteness in Homiletic Pedagogy: A Reflection on Teaching “Proclaiming Justice in the Church & Public Square” Richard W. Voelz

11. Of Handmaids, Mediatrixes and Mothers: The Idealized Feminine and Rhetorics of Whiteness Jerusha Matsen Neal

12. Betraying White Preaching: Homiletical Domination, Racial Treason, and the Pursuit of Abolition Andrew Wymer

13. Who Are You?: White Identity Formation and Re-Formation in Homiletics

Suzanne Wenonah Duchesne

14. Non-Preaching?: Unmasking [White] Preaching Through Negation Lis Valle-Ruiz

15. An Icon of Exclusion: Deconstructing the Pulpit through the Homiletical Practice of Black Women

Chelsea Brooke Yarborough