Podcasts about powery

George Powery shares transformative dietary advice and pantry essentials for lawn care business owners, offering insights into how optimizing your health can significantly enhance both personal well-being and entrepreneurial success. Try the CRM Software I use - Try Jobber Professional Website Design - Start Your Website Journey w/ Footbridge Media Register for Lawn Care Life Conference: Register Here Learn more about LCR Summit: LCR Summit The Landscaping Bookkeeper - Megan and Joey Coberly Reliable Tax Service - Sheila Chaplin Grab your copy of Paul's brand new book: Get Your Copy Check out all of Paul's resources: GreenIndustryPodcast.com Shop for all of Paul Jamison's books: Get Paul's Books Here Learn more about Audiobooks on Audible: Explore Now Shop Kujo Yardwear: Shop Now

Lawn care entrepreneur George Powery reveals his dietary transformations, diving deep into daily food choices, the power of nutrition in sculpting a fit physique, and juggling a hectic business and family life. Save 50% off Equip Expo with code PAUL! - Register Here Try the CRM Software I use - Get Jobber The Landscaping Bookkeeper - Megan and Joey Coberly Reliable Tax Service - Sheila Chaplin Start Your Website Journey w/ Footbridge Media Grab your copy of Paul's brand new book: Get Your Copy Register for Lawn Care Life Conference: Register Here Check out all of Paul's resources: GreenIndustryPodcast.com Shop for all of Paul Jamison's books: Get Paul's Books Here Learn more about Audiobooks on Audible: Explore Now Shop Kujo Yardwear: Shop Now

The Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery is the dean of Duke University Chapel and associate professor of homiletics at Duke Divinity School. A national leader in the theological study of the art of preaching, Powery regularly delivers sermons at Duke Chapel as well as at churches throughout the United States and abroad. He is often a keynote speaker and lecturer at educational institutions, conferences, symposia, and retreats. His teaching and research interests are located at the intersection of preaching, worship, pneumatology, and culture, particularly expressions of the African diaspora. He is the author of Spirit Speech: Lament and Celebration in Preaching; Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death, and Hope; Rise Up, Shepherd! Advent Reflections on the Spirituals; and Were You There? Lenten Reflections on the Spirituals. He has co-authored an introductory textbook on preaching, Ways of the Word: Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place. He is also a general editor of the nine-volume lectionary commentary series for preaching and worship titled Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship.

On this episode, we are joined by Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery, Dean of Duke University Chapel and associate professor of homiletics at Duke Divinity School. He is also the author of the new and celebrated book, Becoming Human: The Holy Spirit and the Rhetoric of Race. We invited Dr. Powery to speak with us today, because we have been on a decolonizing journey this year. And the wisdom Dr. Powery drops in his book, Becoming Human, can help us on this journey. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Tweet to Lisa @LisaSHarper or to Freedom Road at @FREEDOMROADUS. We're also on Substack! So be sure to subscribe to The Truth Is... And, keep sharing the podcast with your friends and networks and letting us know what you think! www.amazon.com/Becoming-Human-Holy-Spirit-Rhetoric/dp/066426722X twitter.com/lisasharper twitter.com/FreedomRoadus lisasharonharper.substack.com/

Nijay and Dr. Emerson Powery talk about his new book on the Parable of the Good Samaritan. They also discuss biblical hermeneutics, African-American interpretation, reception studies, and more.

A sermon by the Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery on November 7, 2021, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon by the Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery on October 17, 2021, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon by the Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery on December 12, 2021, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery preached on August 29, 2021, at Duke University Chapel.

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery on August 22, 2021, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery on August 8, 2021, in Duke University Chapel

Mark 6: 1-13 July 4, 2021 At the Public Square. Rev. Ben Roberts for Foundry UMC It could be the type of situation where someone goes home, and they just know you too well to take you seriously. The kind of place where any time you start talking about something serious, someone responds with a story like, “I remember when you were just a little feller running around bonking a giant yellow bowl on your head. You'd just run around saying “bonk, bonk, bonk.” Tapping the bowl on your head like a giant hat.” It can be hard to lead those who know you or know you best. In Jesus' case today, the problem was less an issue with lovingly nostalgic family members and more an issue of proper place. Dr. Emerson Powery in his commentary on this week's text reminds us of the functions of honor and shame in Mark's society. He Points out that the crowd in this sequence question and point to Jesus' brothers, sisters, and mother. No mention of a father, which is the clue showing the crowd challenges his authority by shaming him based on his perceived illegitimate conception, affirming his low standing in the community.  This “direct insult” is first and foremost an effort to end the conversation or teachings. Some, or at least enough of the crowd, center their feelings and objections to his teachings and use the insult to scandalize and discredit this otherwise powerful, wise teacher. The community as a function of structured life together has deemed this uncontrollable aspect of Jesus' identity to be sufficient cause for him to have low standing or no authority. Overly familiar neighbors or truly scandalous public assertiveness, the point is to stop hearing this prophetic teaching. So often in Mark, it is Jesus' actions and teachings that are the real offense and scandal for anyone hearing or watching. This is especially true for those holding power and privileged positions of leadership such as the Priests (who twisted systems of purity and debt to their own advantage), Roman colonizers and collaborators (who benefited from the taking of land, labor, and goods, if say tributes/tax weren't/couldn't be paid), or even the Zealots (whose efforts were more geared to a militaristic takeover of the system for their own advantage). Jesus seems to have had a very annoying stance of nonalignment with any of those groups and strategies and very often criticized them if not outright undermined them. This is how Jesus brought his faith and message into the intersections of the public square, and I suppose it could have gone better. Hearing a challenging message this age or any age, does not seem to produce such a different result. A queer voice in the United Methodist Church (if they're out), a homeless voice for housing (if it means higher taxes), a black voice for police reform (if it's too loud), latinx voice for citizenship (if they weren't straight A students), a resident of public housing's voice (really for anything anywhere), saying anything (if it's sounds political); while not comprehensive or perfect as a metaphor we still see voices like these muted or not prioritized in the public square. The crowd of the public square is still adept at finding a reason not to act upon or even receive a message from or about the vulnerable, and I am often in the crowd. But the consequences of a lack of openness to prophetic messages for liberation, in any age, remain too deadly to hold our silence or maintain our refusal to receive a word of challenge. “Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house” (Mk 6: 4).  Again, Powery points out that operating within an honor/shame society, prophets were generally ones who would receive honor, but prophets are usually operating where they are less known. However, for that to be true in someone's hometown, it likely, and for Jesus in this case, means taking a space or share of honor from someone else and above their appointed or birth share. Or so the norms and perceptions go. It remains that the point here was to keep Jesus' message from taking root and Jesus himself, and anyone else, from moving up or potentially down the ladder. I'm struck at the notion of the message and ministry doing better outside one's hometown. I'm left with the thought how different or perhaps impossible it would have been if James Baldwin wasn't writing from Paris or how that the “Ripple of Hope” speech Robert Kennedy gave in South Africa wouldn't have the same reception in South Boston. This was not a right time right place thing in Jesus' case. “He could do no deed of power” (Mk 6: 5) He could do no deed of power, fine, but he was still making his way around and curing sick people it seems despite the crowd's “unbelief.” These acts of healing are made to sound almost small in our narrative, but I assure they were community shifting in nature.  Last week Pastor Kelly's sermon included the story of the woman with a 12 year hemorrhage. But for anyone who was ill or unclean they became subject to purity laws and rituals. They were held out of communal participation. And as a matter of becoming hopefully clean again or to attempt to atone for transgressing the purity laws, would have render payment or sacrifice. For the woman with the hemorrhage and for someone like a farm worker coming in contact almost daily with blood or manure, they could be in a repetitious state of uncleanliness and relentlessly subject to requirements of payment and sacrifice or be excluded. I'll oversimplify here, these medical bills could drive and keep already vulnerable people in a cycle of poverty and further sickness because their work or personhood simply exposed them more often and they couldn't afford to get out. There was a system meant to help in a hardship situation; a required debt system where some goods from everyone were put into a centralized place (synagogue/temple) which could be re-distributed to should the need arise. The goods could be sent out in times of famine, war, or community need. However, it was controlled by the same religious leaders as the purity systems, and either from apathy, corruption, or a perverse incentive to maintain their own financial flow; the debt system meant to help started to contribute further to people's suffering. James Newton Poling in “Render unto God” notes that “Restoring purity was expensive. When Jesus healed such people, he was bypassing the purity system and objecting to the debt system that contributed to the poverty of the poor.” So let's try this again. Jesus goes into his home synagogue, a public square for all manner of activity; religious, political, economic. He begins teaching to anyone listening including those in charge. Those whose responsibility it is to see to the wellbeing of the community. Whose responsibility it is to care for the sick per the purity laws. To care for the poor per the law and through the reciprocity and debt systems. Those who often found themselves called upon to maintain order under threat or on behalf of the Romans. And everyone else including some likely harmed directly by the ways those systems had been twisted. He spoke with authority, he taught with wisdom. He talked about systems of oppression. He was insulted, and likely run out. So he started messing with people's money, healed a few sick people. He was astounded at their unbelief. But he couldn't open them up, that's my phrasing, he could do no deed of power. Jesus' faith is rooted in that baseline understanding, love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself. In so doing we ensure that the good creation indeed has enough to meet every economic, physical, or spiritual need anyone might have. Jesus' faith is one of liberation for those who suffer. That liberation doesn't come from prayers to the Donkey, or Elephant, or to the bronze eagle of the Roman Empire, but in a powerful and vulnerable act of opening oneself to the possibility of God's work in the world. Opening to the prophetic messages already and always out there. Opening ourselves up to the possibility that we might be part of the crowd and beneficiaries of twisted systems, recognizing there's grace even for us. Opening ourselves up to the fact that God calls and can use us, no matter what anyone else may deem insufficient about your personhood or what names they want to call you. God is interested in the discourses and systems at play at the public square. Jesus' ministry is at once and always spiritual and political, in that it cares for how we have life and how we have life together. This encounter at the synagogue becomes the play book for the sending out of the disciples.  Hometown ministry or anywhere else, the final verses Jesus instructs the disciples to pare themselves down in dress and resources, “no bag, no money.” Essentially, take no pretense, no high or low expectation, keep yourself open to what you will encounter. Be organized with partners go to places and build relationships. Listen and help name what is broken, what is unjust, and what needs healing…even to the powerful of the public square. And if the crowd refuses to be open, move on; to the next leader, the next house, the next day or opportunity to speak words of life in spaces where they're desperately needed. God is interested in the discourses and systems at play at the public square. God asks us to live our faith at this intersection. God knows twisted power's effect intimately, living and experiencing it through Jesus' life. God knows intimately how the crowd reacts, rejects, and finds excuses. But none of that can stop God's power for healing and liberation. Be of good courage, because the God who knows and loves this whole creation, knows, and loves you, and goes ever before you. https://foundryumc.org/

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery on June 27, 2021, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery on June 13, 2021, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery on May 23, 2021, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery for the Duke Chapel service on May 2, 2021

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery for the Chapel service on April 18, 2021

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery for Easter on April 4, 2021.

A homily by Dean Luke A. Powery for Good Friday on April 2, 2021.

Dr Emerson Powery is the Professor of Biblical Studies at Messiah College. His research, writing, and editing relates to the New Testament and African American experience, including Jesus Reads Scripture (Brill, 2003) and True to Our Native Land: An African American NT Commentary (Fortress/Augsburg, 2007). His most recent (co-authored) publication, The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved (WJKP, 2016), engages the function of the Bible in the 19th-century ‘slave narrative' tradition, including the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. Powery served on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature (2005-2013) and the editorial board for the Common English Bible; also, he was a recent past (regional) President of the Society of Biblical Literature (SE Region; 2006-2007). Presently, he co-chairs the “Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom” section of SBL. Follow Drew Hart on Instagram and Twitter @druhart. Follow Jarrod McKenna on Instagram and Twitter @jarrodmckenna. Discover our global community on Twitter and Instagram @inversepodcast. Become a Patron of Inverse at https://www.patreon.com/InVerse Inverse is produced by Julie Kerr (@juliekkerr) with music provided by David Andrew (@davidjandrew)

Dr Emerson Powery is the Professor of Biblical Studies at Messiah College. His research, writing, and editing relates to the New Testament and African American experience, including Jesus Reads Scripture (Brill, 2003) and True to Our Native Land: An African American NT Commentary (Fortress/Augsburg, 2007). His most recent (co-authored) publication, The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved (WJKP, 2016), engages the function of the Bible in the 19th-century ‘slave narrative’ tradition, including the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. Powery served on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature (2005-2013) and the editorial board for the Common English Bible; also, he was a recent past (regional) President of the Society of Biblical Literature (SE Region; 2006-2007). Presently, he co-chairs the “Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom” section of SBL. Follow Drew Hart on Instagram and Twitter @druhart. Follow Jarrod McKenna on Instagram and Twitter @jarrodmckenna. Discover our global community on Twitter and Instagram @inversepodcast. Become a Patron of Inverse at https://www.patreon.com/InVerse Inverse is produced by Julie Kerr (@juliekkerr) with music provided by David Andrew (@davidjandrew)

A homily by Dean Luke A. Powery

Wilbur Powery's Twitter - https://twitter.com/wilburpoweryWilbur's Blog - https://wilburpowery.dev/Wilbur's GitHub - https://github.com/wilburpoweryLaravel Documents: Notifications - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/notificationsWilbur Group - https://wilbergroup.com/Jake Bennett - https://twitter.com/JacobBennettLaravel Documents: Mail - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/mailMailGun - https://www.mailgun.com/MailTrap - https://mailtrap.io/Hello Cloud - http://hellocloud.io/MailHog - https://github.com/mailhogTakeout - https://github.com/tighten/takeoutHelo Professional - https://usehelo.com/Marcel Pocoit Twitter - https://twitter.com/marcelpociotNexmo - https://developer.nexmo.com/Next - https://nextjs.org/Twilio - https://www.twilio.com/Laravel Documents: Queues - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/queuesLaravel Echo - https://github.com/laravel/echoPusher - https://pusher.com/tutorials/web-notifications-laravel-pusher-channelsLaravel Documents: Broadcast -  https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/broadcastingLaravel: Up & Running - https://laravelupandrunning.com/Laracasts - https://laracasts.com/ Episode SponsorshipTranscription sponsored by LarajobsEditing sponsored by Tighten

A reflection by Dean Luke A. Powery for December 24, 2020, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon by Dean Luke A. Powery on Decemeber 13, 2020, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon preached by Dean Luke A. Powery on December 6, 2020, in Duke University Chapel.

We have a choice to make. As Americans, as humans, there is no doubt we are at the crossroads. Which way will we go? I asked that question of the Rev. Dr. Luke Powery, desperately wanting an answer that will make me want to get out of bed in the morning. Of course, nothing is that easy, but through the twists and turns of our conversation, I came out on the other side with a sense of optimism. And yes, hope.Powery is an author, singer, renowned preacher and the first Black Dean of The Duke University Chapel. So much of what he had to say resonated with me, but one statement in particular stood out: "Our technology has outpaced our humanity. We can go to space, but we can't make space for one another." That statement and many others took my breath away. He quoted W.E. B. Du Bois and Emily Dickinson. He shared jaw dropping experiences of how he's perceived as a Black man in America, despite his Stanford, Princeton and Duke credentials. And he framed it all in the context of confronting our pain on a path that leads to hope.It's the holiday season and we all want to feel that familiar sense of wonder and hope. But it's 2020. If you are struggling with the chaos and division that define this year, give yourself the gift of Dr. Powery's perspective and words of wisdom. You deserve it.www.ourvoicesmatterpodcast.comwww.lorellemedia.comThis podcast is devoted to empowering us all to better understand each other's differences...one story at a time. Emmy Award-winning journalist, Linda Lorelle, guides guests through insightful, unexpected conversations that reveal our common humanity. This show is not about politics per se; it is about finding a way to reclaim civility in the context of the contentious times in which we live, by sharing our personal and professional stories, in hopes that others might find a glimpse of themselves.Support the show (http://patreon.com/OurVoicesMatterPodcast)

A sermon preached by Dean Luke A. Powery on November 8, 2020, at Duke University Chapel

A sermon preached by Dean Luke A. Powery on November 1, 2020, in Duke University Chapel.

A sermon preached jointly by Dean Luke A. Powery and the Rev. Bruce Puckett on October 4, 2020, in Duke University Chapel

A sermon give by Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery on September 20, 2020.

A sermon preached by Dean Luke A. Powery at Duke University Chapel on September 6, 2020.

Samuel Powery describes the wattle-and-daub construction technique that old Caymanians employed to build their homes. Later, he takes us to a sandbar near Nicaragua’s Miskito Cay, where he toughed out a powerful storm. Finally, we end on an out-of-control cargo ship and a crying captain on the Bay of Biscay.Story first published 8 Jan. 2020Read more at https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/01/08/samuel-powery-we-always-pray-for-the-people-at-sea/.

Our concluding Lenten Devotional Blogpost for April 19, 2020, written by Minister Alex Evangelista. A supplement to our Lenten Devotional Series, "Were you there? Lenten Reflections on the Spirituals" by Luke A. Powery.

Our Lenten Devotional Blogpost for April 10, 2020, written by Rev. Sarah Cooper Searight. A supplement to our Lenten Devotional Series, "Were you there? Lenten Reflections on the Spirituals" by Luke A. Powery.

The writings of formerly enslaved people tell us a lot about how they viewed the Bible. We sat down with Professor Emerson Powery to talk about how the Bible was used around the institution of slavery and how it can be both a book of oppression and a book of liberation.    Show Notes →    

A flashback to our Lenten Devotional Blog Post from March 15, 2020, written by Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner. A supplement to our Lenten Devotional Series, "Were you there? Lenten Reflections on the Spirituals" by Luke A. Powery.

A sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Carol Gregg on September 22, 2019, at Duke University Chapel.

A sermon preached by Dean Luke A. Powery on September 29, 2019, at Duke University Chapel.

A sermon preached by Dean Luke A. Powery on September 29, 2019, at Duke University Chapel.

In this episode Pastor Earon gives a historical overview of the black church including the diversity of the black church in terms of theology, liturgy, and tradition. Book list for this episode: The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labor the Reverend Richard Allen by Richard Allen The Faithful Preacher by Thabiti Anyabwile The Negro Church in America by E. Franklin Frazier Q Black Church Since Frazier by C. Eric Lincoln The Souls of Black Folk by WEB DuBois Black Religion and Black Radicalism by Gayraud S. Wilmore The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved by Emerson B. Powery and Rodney S. Sadler Jr.

A sermon preach at Duke University Chapel on June 9, 2019, by Dean Luke A. Powery

Three deans of Duke University Chapel—one current and two former—hold a public conversation about the role of preaching in public discourse. Fewer people are coming to church to hear sermons and yet religious language and elements of the sermonic style continue to be present in various types of public speech. In this context, are preachers being heard and heeded? What is the place of the pulpit in the public square? And, how are sermons changing? Three prolific preachers, with experience on two continents, address those questions and others in a Duke Chapel Bridge Panel conversation moderated by Frank Stasio, the host of WUNC Radio's The State of Things. The panelists are: The Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery, dean of Duke Chapel since 2012 and an associate professor of homiletics at Duke Divinity School The Rev. Dr. Samuel Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields and former dean of Duke Chapel from 2005 to 2012 Bishop William Willimon, professor of the practice of Christian ministry at Duke Divinity School and former dean of Duke Chapel from 1984 to 2004

This Bridge Panel public conversation highlights the stories of justice-involved individuals and the impact of mass incarceration in the local community as well as ways faith communities and others are coming together to seek a more just society. The panelists are: Dr. Douglas Campbell, Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School; Drew Doll, Reentry Coordinator for the Religious Coalition of a Nonviolent Durham; and the Hon. Shamieka L. Rhinehart, Durham District Court Judge. Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery moderates the panel. The Chapel's Bridge Panel series more broadly seeks to connect people from disparate walks of life in order to discover shared pathways toward the beloved community of God.

On this episode, Dr. Emerson Powery discussed his book "The Genesis of Liberation" and how slaves interpreted scripture.

Duke University Chapel hosts a public conversation with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and the Rev. William J. Barber II, "The Enduring Challenge of a Moral Economy: 50 Years After Dr. King Challenged Racism, Poverty, and Militarism." The event was to be part of Duke's 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration and Duke Chapel's Bridge Panel series, which seeks to connect people from disparate walks of life to discover shared pathways toward the community of God. "In joining with others to begin organizing the Poor People's Campaign 50 years ago, Dr. King was working out of a Christian conviction that racial equity, economic justice and peace among nations were interrelated issues -- and all matters of faith," said Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery, who moderated the talk held on April 20, 2018. "Through this public conversation, we have an opportunity to bring together the insights of a preacher and a politician on the present-day work toward a just, moral economy." Barber is a national co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, an initiative that aims to address issues of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation's morality. He is also the president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, a nonprofit organization that seeks to build a moral agenda. An alumnus of Duke Divinity School, Barber is the pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Sanders is an Independent senator from Vermont. His 2016 campaign for the Democratic nomination for president focused on policy issues that included universal health care, free tuition at public universities and a $15-per-hour minimum wage. He was first elected to public office in 1981 as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and has since served 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and 11 years in the U.S. Senate. In addition to his role as dean of Duke Chapel, Powery is an associate professor of homiletics at Duke Divinity School. His most recent book is "Rise Up, Shepherd!: Advent Reflections on the Spirituals." Ordained to the Ministry by the Progressive National Baptist Convention, he was inducted in 2014 into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College for his ethical and spiritual leadership in the academy, church, and broader society. Co-sponsors of the event include Duke Divinity School and Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy and Office for Institutional Equity.

The Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery is the Dean of Duke University Chapel and Associate Professor of Homiletics at Duke Divinity School. Prior to his appointment at Duke, he served as the Perry and Georgia Engle Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He received his B.A. in music with a concentration in vocal performance from Stanford University, his... Read more » The post 84 – Luke Powery appeared first on Sermonsmith.

A public discussion on March 30, 2017 moderated by the Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery, Dean of Duke University Chapel with the Rev. Dr. William Turner, Jr., James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of the Practice of Preaching at Duke Divinity School; Bishop William Willimon, bishop in the United Methodist Church, former dean of Duke Chapel, and professor of the practice of Christian ministry at Duke Divinity School; and readings from the Duke Chapel Recordings Archive.

In a world worried about terror -- acts of violence with political ends -- how is it possible to live in peace? A Duke Chapel "Bridge Panel" conversation takes up the question of what spiritual, political, and communal resources are available to seek peace in an age of fear. The title of the public discussion held on February 24, 2017 comes from a sermon preached in December 2016 by Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery. In it, Dean Powery drew upon the Apostle Paul, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Charles Wesley, and others to describe how "the peace of God is standing guard." Powery moderates the conversation. The panelists are: Professor Valerie Cooper, associate professor of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School, Professor Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law Professor Omid Safi, director of Duke's Islamic Studies Center and a professor of Asian and Middle Studies.

"Giving Back" is Dr. Michael B. Brown's message today. Our guest preacher, Dr. Luke A. Powery, had to cancel. We hope to reschedule for sometime next year.

In a year marked by no less than sixteen mass shootings in the United States, including shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the murder of twenty children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was perhaps the most tragic of exclamation points. In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook murders, women and men of faith were challenged to make sense of what was so obviously senseless. Throughout his career, preacher and scholar Dr. Luke A Powery, has attempted to strike the right chord with regards to the reality of death and the responsibility of those in the pulpit. In his new book Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death and Hope (Fortress Press), Dr. Powery writes, "In order to experience life, resurrection, or hope, one must go through death...yet in many contemporary churches, some preachers avoid dealing with death because they do not realize its vital connection the substance of Christian hope. Because of this denial of death, we are left with sermons that possess a weak pnuematology and are fundamentally hopeless." Dr. Powery, the first Black Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, sits down with host Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black Studios to discuss death, preaching, and hope in times of despair.

Duke Chapel's new dean is Luke Powery. Both a scholar and practitioner of the African-American preaching tradition, Powery comes to Duke from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the chapel's first dean who is black. In an Office Hours conversation, he described how he's coming to understand the chapel's role, his approach to preaching and what hymn has been in his head since arriving on campus.

Session 4 audio - Dr. Luke Powery

Session 3 audio - Dr. Steven Kraftchick

Session 2 audio - Dr. Luke Powery

Session 1 audio - Dr. Tom Long

2010, Roundtable

2010, Session 1, Dr. Tom Long

2010, Tuesday Worship, Bishop Trimble

2010, Session 3, Dr. Steve Kraftchick

2010, Session 2, Dr. Luke Powery

2010, Sesssion 9, Dr. Tom Long

2010, Session 5, Dr. Steve Kraftchick

2010, Session 6, Dr. Tom Long

2010, Session 7, Dr. Luke Powery

2010, Session 8, Dr. Steve Kraftchick

2010, Session 4, Dr. Luke Powery

Dr Emerson Powery is the Professor of Biblical Studies at Messiah College. His research, writing, and editing relates to the New Testament and African American experience, including Jesus Reads Scripture (Brill, 2003) and True to Our Native Land: An African American NT Commentary (Fortress/Augsburg, 2007). His most recent (co-authored) publication, The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved (WJKP, 2016), engages the function of the Bible in the 19th-century ‘slave narrative' tradition, including the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. Powery served on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature (2005-2013) and the editorial board for the Common English Bible; also, he was a recent past (regional) President of the Society of Biblical Literature (SE Region; 2006-2007). Presently, he co-chairs the “Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom” section of SBL. Follow Drew Hart on [Instagram](http://instagram.com/druhart) and [Twitter](http://twitter.com/druhart) @druhart. Follow Jarrod McKenna on [Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/jarrodmckenna) and [Twitter](http://jarrodmckenna) @jarrodmckenna. Discover our global community on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/inversepodcast) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/inversepodcast) @inversepodcast. Become a Patron of Inverse at https://www.patreon.com/InVerse Inverse is produced by Julie Kerr (@juliekkerr) with music provided by David Andrew (@davidjandrew)