Abstract
Mary’s Slave Song: The Tensions and Turnarounds of Faithfully Reading Doulē in the Magnificat, by Raquel S. Lettsome, 6–18
Slave Christologies: Augustine and the Enduring Trouble with the “Form of a Slave” (Phil 2:5 –7), by Matthew Elia, 19–32
How to Rename a Campus Building in Just A Quarter Century: Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Rhodes College, and Palmer Hall, by Stephen R. Haynes, 33–43
Biblical Interpretation, Race, and Union Presbyterian Seminary, by William B. Sweetser, Jr., 44–55
On Shrieking the Truth: Mary and Proclamatory Wailing, by Donyelle C. McCray, 102–111
The Edge of Water: Preaching Sovereignty in Rising Tides, by Jerusha Masten Neal, 112–22
Preaching by the Rivers of Babylon: How an Exile from Pulpit and Pew Can Change White Preaching On the Other Side of Pandemic, by Casey T. Sigmon, 123–33
Questions for Conversational Preaching, by Richard W. Voelz, 134–45
“Is there no Balm in Gilead?”: Health, Illness, Death, and Dying in the Hebrew Bible and Today, by Joel S. Kaminsky, 196–206
Resurrecting the nepeš, by Jim Wright, 207–15
The Christian Funeral as Counter Witness, by Thomas G. Long, 216–26
The Spiritual Tasks of Aging towards Death, by Dawn DeVries, 227–35
Is Nothing Sacred? 1 Timothy and Clergy Sexual Abuse, by Marie M. Fortune, 317–27
Idealized Motherhood: Examples of the Gendered Worldview of the Pastoral Letters, by Annette Huizenga, 294–304
The “Believing Woman” and her ekklēsia: Rethinking Intersectional Households and Manuscript Variations in The Widow’s Tale (1 Tim 5:3–16), by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, 305–16
Education and the Household in the Pastoral Epistles, by Margaret Y. MacDonald, 283–93
Authors
DeVries, Dawn, The Spiritual Tasks of Aging towards Death, 227–35
Elia, Matthew, Slave Christologies: Augustine and the Enduring Trouble with the “Form of a Slave” (Phil 2:5–7), 19–32
Fortune, Marie M., Is Nothing Sacred? 1 Timothy and Clergy Sexual Abuse, 317–27
Haynes, Stephen R., How to Rename a Campus Building in Just A Quarter Century: Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Rhodes College, and Palmer Hall, 33–43
Huizenga, Annette, Idealized Motherhood: Examples of the Gendered Worldview of the Pastoral Letters, 294–304
Kaminsky, Joel S., “Is there no Balm in Gilead?”: Health, Illness, Death, and Dying in the Hebrew Bible and Today, 196–206
Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland, The “Believing Woman” and her ekklēsia: Rethinking
Intersectional Households and Manuscript Variations in The Widow’s Tale (1 Tim 5:3–16), 305–16
Lettsome, Raquel S., Mary’s Slave Song: The Tensions and Turnarounds of Faithfully Reading Doulē in the Magnificat, 6–18
Long, Thomas G., The Christian Funeral as Counter Witness, 216–26
MacDonald, Margaret Y., Education and the Household in the Pastoral Epistles, 283–93
McCray, Donyelle C. On Shrieking the Truth: Mary and Proclamatory Wailing, 102–111
Neal, Jerusha Masten, The Edge of Water: Preaching Sovereignty in Rising Tides, 112–22
Sigmon, Casey T., Preaching by the Rivers of Babylon: How an Exile from Pulpit and Pew Can Change White Preaching On the Other Side of Pandemic, 123–33
Sweetser Jr., William B., Biblical Interpretation, Race, and Union Presbyterian Seminary, 44–55
Voelz, Richard W., Questions for Conversational Preaching, 134–45
Wright, Jim, Resurrecting the nepeš, 207–15
Between Text and Sermon
Genesis 35:13–26, by Amy P. McCullough, 236–38
Exodus 20:1–17, by Sunggu Yang, 56–58
Isaiah 52:1–7, by Claire George Drumheller, 146–48
Mark 1:9–15, by Gennifer Brooks, 149–51
Romans 6:12–23, by Emerson B. Powery, 59–61
1 Corinthians 9:8–18, by Jacob D. Myers, 152–54
John 5:24–29, by Geoffrey Noel Schoonmaker, 239–41
1 Timothy 2:1-7, by Kyeran Kim-Cragg,
Titus 3:4-7, by Troy Clark,
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