Lectures at Princeton Seminary on the Creative Process of Preaching

Princeton, NJ, September 22, 2006–Jana L. Childers, dean and vice president for academic affairs and professor of homiletics and speech communication at San Francisco Theological Seminary, will deliver Princeton Theological Seminary’s biennial Donald Macleod Preaching Lectures on Monday, October 2 and Tuesday, October 3 in the Main Lounge of the Mackay Campus Center. The topic of the lectureship is “Other Tongues: A Spirituality for Preachers.”

Childers is a Presbyterian minister who served congregations in Kansas and New Jersey before joining San Francisco Theological Seminary as a faculty member. She has a B.A. from Wheaton College, an M.Div. from Princeton Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Her interests include the arts, spirituality, worship, and preaching. She is the author of Performing the Word: Preaching as Theatre (Abingdon Press, 1998), coeditor of The Abingdon Women’s Preaching Annual, Series I, editor of Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on Creative Process (Chalice Press, 2001), which received the Religious Communication Association’s Book of the Year award, and editor of Purpose of Preaching (Chalice Press, 2004). She is associate editor of the New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching (forthcoming, Abingdon Press).

The Community Congregational Church of Short Hills, New Jersey, established an endowed lectureship in preaching in honor of Dr. Donald Macleod, the Seminary’s Francis Landey Patton Professor of Preaching and Worship.

The times and titles of the individual Macleod Lectures are:

Monday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m.– “Preaching in the Age of the Spirit”

Tuesday, October 3 at 1:15 p.m.– “The Preacher’s Creative Process”

Tuesday, October 3 at 7:00 p.m.– “The Body and the Spirit”

The lectures are open to the public and free of charge. A reception for Childers will immediately follow the first lecture. For more information, call 609.497.7760 or visit www.ptsem.edu.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812 as the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with more than 700 students in six graduate degree programs.