Date of Award
5-20-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
First Advisor
Richard Rehfeldt
Abstract
This thesis addresses the need for preachers to hear the voices of people of color, to hear the “prophets in the streets,” specifically African-Americans, and to have their eyes opened to their own white privilege and role in white supremacy. This thesis argues that this is an important step in preachers finding their confessional voices for preaching before they can begin to help the individual members of those congregations become aware of their individual and collective white privilege and role in white supremacy. With the help of black clergy a “Twin Cities Pilgrimage” was created. This involved learning the stories of locations (sacred places both hopeful and painful), for the black community in the Twin Cities, hearing Scripture at the locations and the white preachers preaching from those same Scriptures the following Sunday.
Recommended Citation
Feille, Laurie P., "Confessional Biblical Preaching in the Face of Whiteness: Challenging the Preacher’s Understanding of White Supremacy" (2018). Doctor of Ministry Theses. 30.
https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/dmin_theses/30
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