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What if you started thinking really concretely about small, hard choices? That's exactly what palliative care physicians do every day. They help us think about what we really want—knowing that we have limited time and limited resources. You're going to love our guest today, Dr. Kathryn Mannix, palliative care physician and cognitive behavioral therapist. She offers practical steps to help people and their loved ones make sense of what limited choices they have, navigate any pain and fear they may experience, and gives the most comforting speech on what the end of a life looks like that we've ever heard. (I promise this is not scary at all. It is perfect.) In this conversation, Kate and Kathryn discuss: Why we want to keep a lid on the scary things of life  What even is palliative care How palliative care-type thinking can help us live better  What happens to hope when facing end of life This is a masterclass in walking right up to the edge with people, in the most gentle, compassionate way.  If you liked this episode, you'll also love:  Sunita Puri on living in uncertainty Rev. Tom Long on the importance of the rituals for death and dying   Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here or visiting katebowler.com/podcasts. Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter)—@katecbowler. Links to social pages and more available at linktr.ee/katecbowler.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is it possible for anyone to change—change their mind, change their theology, change their priorities? What does it mean to hope when we live in such uncertainty? Richard B. Hays is a world-renowned scholar of the New Testament. He is also a dear friend and colleague of Kate Bowler. Richard and Kate were both unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer at the same time, which meant they spent many hours discussing the heart of what it means to hope. Their hard won wisdom adds such depth and heart to today's episode. In this conversation, Richard and Kate discuss:   What it means to be hopeful A rich theological perspective of suffering in light of the resurrection How to pray when you are living in uncertainty  Why it's never too late to change your mind as you grow older This is a soulful conversation that embodies the humility it takes to change anything. Your mind. How your time is spent. Your certainties. We can't wait to hear what you think.  If you liked this episode, you might also love:  Will Willimon on vocation (especially as we age) Tom Long on learning to number our days Stanley Hauerwas on needing fewer explanations Jeff Chu on discovering grace for people who think unlike you   Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here or visiting katebowler.com/podcasts. Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter)—@katecbowler. Links to social pages and more available at linktr.ee/katecbowler.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For many, the existence of suffering and evil in the world is the greatest hurdle to full faith and belief in God. It seems irreconcilable that a God who is all-powerful and all-loving could allow the presence of pain and hardship. It is a dilemma that preacher and biblical scholar Tom Long called “the impossible chess match,” in which there is no clear and clean outcome. But faith allows us to trust where there are no easy answers, and follow God when we ask our hardest questions. HydeParkUMC.org/NextStepsReflection Questions:1. When have you wrestled with God's relationship to human suffering? 2. What has given you strength during times of hardship? Where do you think God was? 3. How have you experienced God transforming your suffering into something positive?

Matthew tells us two stories about Jesus' interaction with Gentiles. In both the story of the Roman centurion and the Canaanite woman, Jesus makes an oblique reference to the table and Gentiles. Since most of us are Gentiles, we may take for granted Christ's invitation to his table today. Through Christ's death and resurrection, God now welcomes people from every tribe and tongue to come to his table. Message based on Matthew 8:5-13; 15:21-28.Quotes:John 12:32: And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.  He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.John Claypool's young daughter with leukemia: Have you asked God to heal me of my cancer?  Yes.  What did he say?The Canaanite woman was an outsider: Tom Long says she was “on the border” – the boundary between the old and the new, between male and female, between Jew and Gentile, between friend and enemy, between the holy and the demonic.”Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A year and a half before his death, in solitary confinement potatoes and turnips; package through Ruth.  I needed a visible sign to confirm the word of your love. Lord's Supper Prayer: We do not presume to come to your table, merciful Lord, trusting in our own goodness, but in your all-embracing love and mercy. We are not worthy even to gather up the crumbs under your table, but it is your nature always to have mercy. So feed us with the body and blood of Jesus Christ, your Son, that we may forever live in him and he in us. Amen.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Welcome all to another episode of the Yardage Book Podcast. We had a great conversation with Tom Long, the Director of Golf at The Kinloch Club, widely regarded as the toughest course in the country. Tom and I cover some good insight into the course, some of his favourite holes and much more. Crack into it

This week we leap to another Australian classic – one of Heath Ledgers early films – 1999 crime comedy Two Hands. We leapt here from The Dish with aussie actor Tom Long.

The study and analysis of Great Power Competition is all the vogue in international relations and foreign policy circles. And understandably so, the rise of China, the actions of Russia and America's approach to geo-politics are indeed setting the conditions in which some big global shifts are playing out. But that does not mean one should ignore the role that small states are playing in international politics. If you overlook small states, you are missing a complete picture of international relations today.  My guest today, Tom Long is author of the book  "A Small State's Guide to Influence in World Politics" and associate professor of international relations at the University of Warwick.  He studies how smaller states have successfully shaped internationally affairs to their advantage.

HAPPY 15th BIRTHDAY, Sermon Brainwave! Join Profs. Karoline Lewis, Joy J. Moore, and Matt Skinner for a conversation on the Revised Common Lectionary texts for the Day of Pentecost on May 28, 2023. Watch the video version on Youtube. This episode also marks 15 years since Working Preacher published Sermon Brainwave episode 1 on texts for June 1, 2008. It's amazing to think back on that first recording session with Karoline, Matt and David Lose huddled around a Snowball mic. It's a great opportunity to give thanks for the people who have made this podcast (this ministry!) possible: Co-hosts: Rolf Jacobson, Karoline Lewis, David Lose, Joy J. Moore, and Matt Skinner Special guests: Walter Brueggemann, Tom Long, Anna Carter Florence, Will Willimon, to name a few… Behind-the-scenes staff: Dozens of staff and student workers who scheduled, recorded, edited, posted, promoted, etc. And of course, we're grateful for you, Sermon Brainwave listeners!

The Reverend Tom Long wrote the book on funerals. No, really. When grief threatens to swallow us whole, Tom reminds us of our place in a bigger story of hope and faith, of interdependence and the importance of community. He describes the necessity of ritual to pull us into a wider, truer story than the trite version our culture likes to tell.In this warm conversation (trust me! You will laugh!), Kate and Tom discuss:  What it means to be called into emotionally-expensive professions (jobs where you decide to really care!)  The importance of truth-telling at a funeral Seeing people through the prism of God's love for them (more specifically—through the lens of their baptism) Why people die at all and what happens with all the love we have for one another (hint: it's never, ever, ever lost) The importance of the rituals we create to walk people through death and dying No one likes to talk about funerals, but this one is a must-listen. ***Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here.Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter.THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days is out now. Learn more, here.We have free Lent guides for you to use by yourself, with a group, or with your church. Click here to get started.Leave us a voicemail and who knows? We might even be able to use your voice on the air: 919-322-8731 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Reverend Tom Long wrote the book on funerals. No, really. When grief threatens to swallow us whole, Tom reminds us of our place in a bigger story of hope and faith, of interdependence and the importance of community. He describes the necessity of ritual to pull us into a wider, truer story than the trite version our culture likes to tell. In this warm conversation (trust me! You will laugh!), Kate and Tom discuss:  What it means to be called into emotionally-expensive professions (jobs where you decide to really care!)  The importance of truth-telling at a funeral Seeing people through the prism of God's love for them (more specifically—through the lens of their baptism) Why people die at all and what happens with all the love we have for one another (hint: it's never, ever, ever lost) The importance of the rituals we create to walk people through death and dying No one likes to talk about funerals, but this one is a must-listen.  *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days is out now. Learn more, here. We have free Lent guides for you to use by yourself, with a group, or with your church. Click here to get started. Leave us a voicemail and who knows? We might even be able to use your voice on the air: 919-322-8731 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Long has been racing sports cars successfully for many years. He worked his way up from SCCA Spec Miata to become a factory driver for Mazda in their DPi class, he's driven an incredible array of race cars over the years. We caught up with him at the 2022 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach where he was getting ready to get behind the wheel for the first time in the amazing Mazda RX-792P IMSA GTP car from 1992. He shares his insight and comparisons of the newer and older Mazda race cars. He's also been racing in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge GT4 GS class and the Lamborghini Trofeo Series. When he's not at the race track driving, he spends a lot of his time coaching drivers. Enjoy! Note: Before the actual interview with Tom, I recorded the engine sounds of the Porsche 962, twin-turbo V6 Jaguar, and the four-rotor Mazda RX-792P IMSA GTP cars near the end of Shoreline Drive. This Mazda screams excitement! By Larry Mason Copyright © 2023 Larry Mason

Fuair Tom Long ó Chíll na gColmán agus an Fosadh i gCíll Áirne bás inné. Bhuaidh sé dhá bhonn uile Éireann le Ciarrai i 1959 agus 1962. Tá trácht air a ghníomhartha i 1956 nuair a bhuaidh Col. Phádraig air Naomh Uinsean i gcraobh ceannais caide Átha Cliath.

Ómós do Tom Long; Micheál Ó Gliosáin,agus Feargal Ó Sé. An grá ná scarfaidh an bás; Eibhlín Uí Lúin a trácht air a saol ó fuair a fear céille Páidí bás. Dónal Ó Gréacháin; Na trálaeirí móra sa Daingean sa dara leath don 19ú h-aois.

Content Curator Adam Mixon speaks with the Rev. Dr. Tyshawn Gardner (Samford University) and and the Rev. Dr. Tom Long (Candler School of Theology) about the art of preaching, speaking truth to both the powerful and the powerless, and mining hope out of mountains of despair.

The Institute of the Americas and the UC San Diego School for Global Policy & Strategy presents a public forum featuring a presentation of the new book, North America 2.0: Forging a North American Future, by its two co-editors, Alan Bersin and Tom Long and remarks by senor representatives of the North American Forum from Canada, Mexico and the United States. Series: "Institute of the Americas" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 38542]

The Institute of the Americas and the UC San Diego School for Global Policy & Strategy presents a public forum featuring a presentation of the new book, North America 2.0: Forging a North American Future, by its two co-editors, Alan Bersin and Tom Long and remarks by senor representatives of the North American Forum from Canada, Mexico and the United States. Series: "Institute of the Americas" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 38542]

The Institute of the Americas and the UC San Diego School for Global Policy & Strategy presents a public forum featuring a presentation of the new book, North America 2.0: Forging a North American Future, by its two co-editors, Alan Bersin and Tom Long and remarks by senor representatives of the North American Forum from Canada, Mexico and the United States. Series: "Institute of the Americas" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 38542]

The Institute of the Americas and the UC San Diego School for Global Policy & Strategy presents a public forum featuring a presentation of the new book, North America 2.0: Forging a North American Future, by its two co-editors, Alan Bersin and Tom Long and remarks by senor representatives of the North American Forum from Canada, Mexico and the United States. Series: "Institute of the Americas" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 38542]

The Institute of the Americas and the UC San Diego School for Global Policy & Strategy presents a public forum featuring a presentation of the new book, North America 2.0: Forging a North American Future, by its two co-editors, Alan Bersin and Tom Long and remarks by senor representatives of the North American Forum from Canada, Mexico and the United States. Series: "Institute of the Americas" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 38542]

Welcome to Episode 93 of the Adventures with Grammy Podcast. Today's guest, Tom Long, began performing as the Singing Santa in 1985 when he was 21 years old. He knew that first Christmas he had chosen the right avocation when a curly headed lad with big brown eyes said he wanted to hear Santa say, "Ho. Ho. Ho." Throughout the years the Magic of Christmas and watching parents light up when their children sit in Santa's lap have fueled Tom's passion for performing as The Singing Santa. An invitation to work with Marie Osmond and an appearance on America's Got Talent added a bit of spice to his role. When he retires from his day job as the general manager of the largest restaurant chain in Virginia, Tom intends to up his Singing Santa productions and hopes to perform with The Rockettes and during the Macy's Parade. Tom says his career as The Singing Santa would not be possible without the support of his wife. Even his three children help out making the Christmas season truly a family affair for the Long household. I began our interview by asking Tom to talk about his children and how he incorporates them into his performances. https://www.singingsantaclaus.com tlong001@aol.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063570041670 https://youtube.com/user/TheSingingsantaclaus Sign up for the Adventures with Grammy newsletter by clicking this link or by texting Grammy to 22828 to get started! To learn more about Adventures with Grammy and books by Carolyn Berry, visit https://adventureswithgrammy.com To leave feedback about the podcast and to suggest guests and topics, send an e-mail to carolyn@adventureswithgrammy.com Social Media https://www.facebook.com/grammyadventure https://instagram.com/grammyadventure Music: https://audiojungle.net/user/play_m  

Jamika and guest host Hannah Devine interview community-builder and all-ages music advocate Tom Long! Tom Long represents Real Art Tacoma, the Amocat Award Winner for Community Outreach by an Organization. Tom is the president of...

I'm joined by Mateusz Eljasz who went 5-0 at GT ŁÓDŹ to talk about Hedonites of Slaanesh. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by Sean Seyer to talk about Legion of the First Prince. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by Matt Kowalyk of Team Canada to talk about Soulblight Gravelords. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by Tobias Kempf to talk about Be'lakor and Maggotkin of Nurgle. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by Bryan Lofton to talk about Dadbod Ogor Mawtribes. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by Mikey Gilson to talk about Bonesplitterz in Orruk Warclans. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by  @Season of War  's Jordan Duncan to talk about Lumineth Realm-Lords. Has Lumineth dropped in the competitive pecking order? Are Sentinels outplayed by Longstrikes? In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by Cody Saults who recently went 4-1 at LVO ‘22 with Stormcast Eternals... and not with a full Dragon army. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by Dylan Lindner who recently went 4-1 at LVO ‘22 with Sons of Behemat. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by James West who recently went 4-1 at LVO ‘22 with Maggotkin of Nurgle. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

**Check the YouTube video for all the visuals and additional rules** Preview Part 2: Idoneth Deepkin 3e matched play changes. In this video I preview the new grand strategies, battle tactics, point changes and key warscroll changes between books. The Idoneth Deepkin battletome was provided to me by Games Workshop at no cost in advance of instore release. I'm under no obligation to do a review or will Games Workshop have any control of what's in this video.

**Check the YouTube video for all the visuals and additional rules** Preview Part 1: Idoneth Deepkin 3e faction rules. In this video I preview the Idoneth Deepkin allegiance abilities, sub-faction rules, battleline options, command traits, artefacts, mount traits, prayers, and gloomtide shipwreck. The Idoneth Deepkin battletome was provided to me by Games Workshop at no cost in advance of instore release. I'm under no obligation to do a review or will Games Workshop have any control of what's in this video.

**Check the YouTube video for all the visuals and additional rules**   Preview Part 2: Fyreslayers 3e matched play changes. In this video I preview the new grand strategies, battle tactics, point changes and key warscroll changes between books. The Fyreslayers battletome was provided to me by Games Workshop at no cost in advance of instore release. I'm under no obligation to do a review or will Games Workshop have any control of what's in this video.

**Check the YouTube video for all the visuals and additional rules** Preview Part 1: Fyreslayer 3e faction rules. In this video I preview the Fyreslayers allegiance abilities, sub-faction rules, battleline options, command traits, artefacts, mount traits, prayers, and magmic battleforge. The Fyreslayer battletome was provided to me by Games Workshop at no cost in advance of instore release. I'm under no obligation to do a review or will Games Workshop have any control of what's in this video.

I'm joined by  @The Stormkeep  's Mrigank Jha who went 5-0 and played in the Top 8 finals of the LVO ‘22 with Stormcast Eternals... without dragons! In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

Mess with the bull you get the horns! I'm joined by Matt Nguyen (@roz9497) who recently went 4-1 at LVO ‘22 with Beasts of Chaos. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by Russ Tanner who went 5-0 and played in the Top 8 finals of the LVO ‘22 with Ogor Mawtribes. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop.

I'm joined by the winner of the Las Vegas Open 2022 & co-host of @Harambe's Heroes Podcast Gavin Grigar (@GavinGrigarHH) to talk about his pathway to winning a major event. In this discussion I want to understand his thoughts and actions leading up to the event, during the event, and learning along the way. Should be insightful to anyone looking to improve their tournament performance.

I'm joined by Levan Sichinava who went 4-1 and played in the Top 8 finals of the LVO ‘22 with a zombie focused Soulblight Gravelords. In this video I'll attempt to understand how my guest is using the faction, how they're building lists, and what's important to get the most of the army on the tabletop. You can find Levan on  @BulldogHammer  .

In this video I look at White Dwarf issue 473's new rules for Beasts of Chaos. I'll discuss the rules and attempt to provide my thoughts and insights so you can make the most out of the rules. As always, let me know in the comments what you like, what I missed, and how you're thinking about incorporating it into your army.

Executive Director Mark Ramsey speaks with Dr. Donyelle McCray (Yale Divinity School) and the Rev. Dr. Tom Long (Candler School of Theology) about their new book of Advent Devotions, the "disappointing Jesus", and what's required of us.

In this episode, Sally Brown, homiletician and Elizabeth M. Engle Professor of Preaching and Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary, talks about these themes and more from her new book, Sunday's Sermon for Monday's World: Preaching to Shape Daring Witness, in which she shares ways preachers can help spark their hearer's sense of divine imagination.Sally A. Brown, PhD '01, is Princeton Seminary's Elizabeth M. Engle Professor of Preaching and Worship. She earned an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. An ordained Presbyterian minister with more than 20 years of parish and non-parish pastoral experience prior to beginning her academic career, she continues to teach and preach in local congregations. Her academic interests include the theology and rhetoric of the cross in contemporary preaching, with attention to issues raised by feminist theology and postmodern theories of discourse; exploring the history, theology, and rhetoric of women's preaching in a range of cultural contexts; identifying trajectories of continuity and change in worship today, with attention to the what and why of Christian worship, theologically, as well as the difference context makes in worship practices; and hermeneutical theory and constructive practical theology. She teaches preaching and worship as well as a PhD seminar in theories of interpretation and constructive practical theology.Dayle Rounds (00:00): Can Sunday's sermon inspire listeners to practice Christian witness in their day-to-day life? In this episode, you will hear from Sally Brown, an ordained Presbyterian pastor and professor of preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. She spoke with us about her new book, *Sunday's Sermon for Monday's World: Preaching to Shape Daring Witness*. Sally talks with us about how preaching can help people be agents of redemptive interruption and inspire others to exhibit the inclusive love, radical mercy, and restorative justice of God. Listen in to learn about embodied Christian witness, imagination theory, and sermons that have the capacity to influence action. Interlude (00:43): [percussive music, water droplet sound] You're listening to The Distillery at Princeton Theological Seminary. Dayle Rounds (00:47): Alright, Sally, thank you for sitting down today to talk with me about teaching preaching and about, particularly, your new book that has come out. I want to start our conversation, just to simply ask you what drew you to study homiletics in the beginning, and then to commit yourself to nurturing and teaching preaching all these years? Sally Brown (01:12): Thank you. That's always interesting for me to reflect on, finding myself now having taught preaching for 22, almost 23 years. I was in the ministry for 18 years -- non-parish for five and parish ministry for 13. It was early in the second call that I really started thinking more about my own preaching and felt that I really didn't know what I was doing. I had had exactly one course. I took the course at a time when actually I didn't believe that women were called to preach. So, you can imagine I didn't take it terribly seriously. But then, you know, one thing -- you change, and your mind is changed, and the Spirit changes your mind. And I realized I was called into the ministry, called to preach, called to the pulpit. And I found myself in a call where I was preaching regularly, not every week, but on a regular basis every month in three services. Sally Brown (02:15): And by the end of the morning, whatever I'd done, I'd done in the hearing of about 1100 people. And I was very self-conscious about how little I really understood what I was up there doing. So I took a seminar that was on preaching parables. And by about the end of the -- and this was at Princeton, continuing education, Tom Long was doing a seminar on preaching parables. And by the end of day one, I knew that whatever this was we were doing, which was really more homiletical theory and rethinking how we read a text, how we move from text to sermon, whatever this I wanted to be doing it. So one thing led to another, I did some tutorials, not only with Tom Long, but also Christine Smith. Just one-day tutorials. They gave me reading lists. I did the reading. We would have a conversation. We would listen to my own sermons and critique them. And, eventually I decided I wanted to at least, attempt to get into a PhD program and that happened. And, I, I guess the rest of this story is, is clear enough. My first call was to Lancaster Seminary, where I taught for three years. And I'm happy to say that the current homiletician there is a graduate of our program, Catherine Williams, and I worked with her on her dissertation, and then I moved to Princeton in 2001. Dayle Rounds (03:50): That's great. Thank you, Sally. The next thing I want to ask you is, so that's what drew you in, how you began to teach preaching. And then so through your career, when you've studied, you've written, you've, you've been teaching pastors -- what prompted the writing of this particular book *Sunday's Sermon for Monday's World?* What brought you and why did you write this? Sally Brown (04:17): I've always taught preaching, as I say to my students, with one foot in the congregation. You know, I think if you've spent enough years just immersed in congregational ministry, you always feel the interconnection between the sermon and the rest of life, the rest of parish life, you know, the rest of congregational life. But also, you get more conscious of what is it like for these people in the pews to step out the door. You know, by the time they get in their cars, do they even remember what the sermon was about? You know, and what can help people? What I'm hoping happens in the pulpit is that we hand people a lens on the basis of the texts we're preaching and the way we open it up for them. I hope that when I'm opening up is a lens into the world and the Monday-to-Saturday world, not just talking in sort of an echo chamber of Christian Sunday morning or Saturday night worship. I want their world to look different because of what happened in the sermon. Sally Brown (05:30): So that's always been a preoccupation of mine. And then it seemed to me that sermons had to get to be something more than memorable. They had to somehow become portable in the sense that, that you could grab that lens and look through it and see your world differently and recognize how God is working in that space. And you can be a participant in whatever God is doing to work redemptively in that moment in time that may be at work or school or in the cafeteria, or, you know, at the, you know, with the other soccer moms at the soccer field. And I got interested in what makes the sermon portable into the world of Monday-to-Saturday. So I began reading on the subject of how -- what inspires any human action. And I got interested in imagination theory because as Paul Ricoeur says, imagination is essential to all human action. Sally Brown (06:32): We mentally rehearse in a nanosecond, our choices in a situation, and then we choose. But there's this dynamic of imaginative rehearsal. And I wondered how could the sermon itself become part of the imaginative rehearsal for human action in the everyday world? I also then got interested in what is Christian witness because one of the dominant models over the last 15 years or so -- more than that, probably 20 years, 25 -- has been a missional approach that really emphasizes the witness of the whole congregation as a body that lives out and embodies forth Christian convictions in the world. But even insiders to the missional movement have said, what's happened to the witness of the individual? And the reason I think that's so important is that public worship really isn't so public anymore. A lot of people regard worship services, religious gatherings, as private, not public. Sally Brown (07:40): And so where are people likely to encounter a believable embodiment of Christian faith? Well, in individual lives, in the individual lives with the Christians they happen to rub shoulders with an ordinary space, any day of the week. So that became my interest. What's the connection between a sermon that develops this capacity for faith-shaped, imaginative rehearsal that influences the action that one might take on an ordinary day and an ordinary space, in a situation that maybe has some ethical edge to it, or calls for a way of exhibiting the -- what I call in the book, "the inclusive love, the radical mercy and the restorative justice of God." Interlude (08:39): [water droplet sound] Dayle Rounds (08:42): The other thing you lift up in the book and use as a lens, and that I have actually heard you talk about in your teaching and in the conversations we've had over the years, is you talk about "promise-grounded hope," and that's a key part of this book. But you came to that idea before you even wrote this book. So can you tell our listeners a little bit about what you mean about "promise-grounded hope"? What is it? And why is it so important? Sally Brown (09:13): Yeah, I do think that's a critical question and a critical point of departure in the work I do. I think, especially in this pandemic, we've really been conscious of how -- what is hope and where does it come from? And then we've been living through really a double viral pandemic, as the COVID pandemic exposed so many inequities that are traceable to systemic racism in American society, inequities in healthcare and access, and even vulnerability to the disease and to dying of it, all of that, connects to race and a long history here. So, where does hope come from? I've been very much influenced by what's sometimes called apocalyptic theology. And some of my other colleagues here represent that too. And the accent there is that hope comes from the God who promises again and again and again -- it happens in both the Hebrew scriptures of the Old Testament. It happens as well in the New Testament -- promises the renewal of all things, that God is bringing about a new creation, God promises to make all things new. And there are visions of what that new creation will look like. For example, you find it in Isaiah 65 and in other places in the Old Testament. You find it in Revelation, of course -- "And behold I saw a new heaven and a new earth." And then, Paul the apostle talks about "we are a new creation," or actually he simply says (it doesn't even use 'is'), he just says "behold, new creation." When he went, speaking of the risen Christ and our participation in the life of the risen Christ. So, what that does, if we can affirm in preaching, that God has promised and is bringing about a new creation, then what we're doing in preaching is to invite people, to see and participate in that reality. Sally Brown (11:27): In other words, we don't come up with the hope. Human optimism and endurance are powerful things. There's no question about that. And I don't mean to diminish the meaningfulness of human optimism and endurance, particularly during this pandemic. The endurance of people of color, through decades and now, hundreds of years of oppressive, systemic bias against them. And I don't mean to diminish that, but genuinely Christian hope anchors itself in the future that is already established in the risen Jesus Christ who's called the firstborn of the new creation. That God has already begun this transformed future. It is reaching out to meet us from the future. And I believe that the Spirit is at work all around us in the church and outside of the church, creating this ferment of transformation toward this renewal of all things -- all created things, not just humans, but the whole, the ecology in which we live, the environment, all creatures, all living things and, and even the inanimate. Sally Brown (12:44): So my understanding of preaching is that we preach anchored in the future. Every sermon is anchored in the future, in a sense, in the promise of God to bring about that renewal of all things. And then that enlists, maybe, our optimism and our endurance, but the hope doesn't, isn't something we have to generate. And we don't go into the pulpit to say, you know, we got to get it right, or the reign of God can't come. In other words, that makes us always pushing from behind and scolding people for their failures and telling them, do this, do this, do that. You know, we lengthened their to-do list, which was long enough when they came into church. I don't think that's what Christian preaching needs to do. First and foremost, it needs to announce that despite all, whatever may have happened to you this week, God is still at work and God's promises are good. Sally Brown (13:43): And the new creation has begun, and we have the opportunity to participate. So that a sermon says, because God promises (and then fill in the blank, depends very much on your text) we can. Rather than saying, we must, we ought, we should all the time. What do we now have the opportunity to be, to become, to do, to say, to create, because God's new creation is laying claim to the present and to us? So that's what I mean by promise-grounded hope. And the third chapter of *Sunday's Sermon Monday's World* is devoted to that. Dayle Rounds (14:23): You talk about wanting to anchor the sermon in that future reality, in that promise-grounded hope. And the book is about how we might preach that way. But the real purpose is -- I think -- is not just about the preacher's witness, but it's the sermon that then ignites, enlists, encourages the witness of the community of each individual that makes up that community, and how they can bear witness in their everyday lives, you know, Monday to Saturday. So you touched on it a little bit talking about Christian witness, but I wonder if you can spend a little more time about what does faithful Christian witness look like for you, for the average everyday person who's coming up and sitting in the pews on Sunday morning? What's a story or a description of that in your mind? Like, what are you -- what image are you using as you're writing this book for Christian witness? Sally Brown (15:26): What I have in mind is a person who is going about her everyday week, the roles she plays, as parent, maybe as a worker, as a volunteer, as a voter, maybe she's a board member for a nonprofit, whatever that person is doing. And just even in the most mundane kind of interactions, for instance, at a social event of some sort, and say that, she finds herself in the middle of a discussion, which involves some kind of belittling language say toward women, toward women's leadership or something. I would imagine her as a person who speaks up about that, and says, you know, I have trouble with the kind of language that diminishes women's capacity to lead, or to lead with authority. Their authority may look different. It may look more like achieving consensus to move forward, but I have trouble with diminishing women in this way. Sally Brown (16:48): So that just in an ordinary conversation, you would bear witness to go back to that, try to the inclusive, love the radical mercy, the restorative justice of God, maybe that's a restorative justice kind of comment? In, that you, you want to help us see differently aligned with a new creation in which women, as well as men are called into leadership and fullness of the use of their gifts. So, it can be just as mundane as that I do begin the book with some examples, which actually only one of the examples that I used is someone who consciously identified with the church, and that was Rosa Parks. I mentioned Rosa Parks and what she did. And actually there was a lot of activism on her part that led up to the day that she did not give up her seat. But in the moment because of the person she had become, and because of the person of faith that she was, she had courage to seize a moment that would make a difference that would change, shift the situation and challenge the status quo. Sally Brown (18:02): And then I speak of, for instance, the individual only known as the tank man, the young man who stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square in China. And then I mentioned a couple of others. What these have in common is that this person is actually acting as a couple of my colleagues put it in a book as agents of redemptive interruption. Well, actually the redemptive is my contribution, they talk about witness as acting as an agent of interruption of the status quo to bear witness to a transformed reality. The future that God is bringing about. And, so I talk about people -- and I want to see the people in the pew think of themselves as agents of redemptive interruption, potentially in an ordinary situation to shift things toward rightness, toward justice, and toward inclusivity, and toward mercy. Sally Brown (19:03): But that takes imagination. So then you roll it back to the Sunday, to the Sunday morning pulpit. And even behind that to the work and the study on the sermon and the sermon needs to be about how can we help people become imaginative, anchored in their faith tradition, anchored in understanding God's inclusive, love and radical mercy and restorative justice by, you know, being steeped in the stories and the metaphors of scripture and in the practices of faith and the church and individually. So you have all these resources and then like a jazz player, you draw on this deep tradition and you play out something new, something imaginative and something apt to the moment and the situation. That for me is embodied Christian witness in an everyday world that imaginative improvisational drawing out of a deep tradition. And my job is to help people inhabit that tradition as I draw them inside a story. Sally Brown (20:14): You know, we're not supposed to really -- I think we're not supposed to so much explain the stories of scripture as explore them and help other people to explore their dynamics. And I do think that an awful lot of emphasis has been on information. If we tell people -- if we give people enough information about what they ought to do, then they will act. Well, what if they need us to help them develop their imagination, rather than just stuff their head full of information? Because unless you are able to look imaginatively into the world and discern what I call the public presence of God, the presence of the Spirit, the possibilities of the Spirit in that setting, you don't need to flip through a manual, you know, sort of (this is a metaphor) flip through a manual and try to find the right injunction for that moment. Sally Brown (21:16): You need to be able to relate to it imaginatively, coming out of the stories of scripture that have shaped you. But I think often the missing move at the end of a sermon is, wow, what could this look like? An imaginative move on the part of the preacher. So too many sermons analyze a problem, apply, in some sense, the scripture and give the list of shoulds and oughts on the basis of the scripture. And then just say, "and may we go into the world as true disciples of Jesus"? Yeah. But show me what that looks like. What does that look like on Main Street? So I, I really encourage my preachers to spend at least one-fourth of the sermon toward its end saying, what might this look like in our community? What -- how could this change the way that we interact with neighbors of other cultures than our own? It might look like this. What if that? There are some preachers who do that exceptionally well. And one well-known one is Barbara Brown Taylor. She's just one of many who are doing this, have been doing this for a long time. Interlude (22:32): [water droplet sound] Dayle Rounds (22:34): In the book, too, when you unpack Christian witness, and you talk about it in terms of participation and imagination, you draw on the work of Craig Van Gelder and Dwight Zscheile. Can you say a little bit more about that? Go a little deeper into their work and how that has informed your understanding of what it means to be a Christian person bearing witness in the public square? Sally Brown (22:57): Yeah, it's partly Van Gelder and Zscheile, also Craig Dykstra and Dorothy Bass redefined Christian witness as participation. I think the imagination move comes particularly from Van Gelder and Zscheile. The participation move comes especially from Craig Dykstra and Dorothy Bass. And, so, so this is the idea that God has proceeded us into every situation. I sometimes say in sermons, no matter where we find ourselves, God got there first. And so then our job is to be alert to the possibilities that the Spirit of God is opening up in a situation for us to participate in the flow of God's redemptive, transforming grace expressed in the situation, or maybe just name it or bring it to bear, call it forth in a particular situation. So it's not that we bring God to a godless world. We go to meet God where God is already working in the world and in ordinary space. That's what I mean by participation, we participate in something that is already underway in the power of the spirit. Dayle Rounds (24:19): The thing that kept coming to mind to me was remembering... I had a class years ago on the gospel of Mark with Don Juel at Princeton Seminary. And in the crucifixion, when the temple curtain is torn, the phrase Don used was that God is on the loose, you know, so God has gone before us and, right, it's not us to bring God around, but to point out and to discover where God is already at work in the world. Sally Brown (24:49): [water droplet sound] Dayle Rounds (24:49): Another move you make toward the end of the book -- you do have an interesting chapter toward the end that I wanted to get to a little bit on metaphor. Because as you acknowledge in the book too, some people become squeamish about metaphor, but you really point to it as one particular preacher move or whatever -- that might allow us to bring it home to the witnesses who are in our pews as a way to maybe do that move. So, so what? You know, what does this mean? What does this look like? Can you say a little bit more about metaphor, maybe address the issue that why some people are uncomfortable with it and why you think it actually can be used well for preaching? Sally Brown (25:35): I think historically the theological mistrust of metaphor is that metaphor is a poetic device. Generally, it's something like, well... Let's take one that's been common in our conversation over this past year of the pandemic. People -- I guess you'd only say this in Christian circles, but -- people are saying these days, I've been living in exile so long. I'm really ready to get back to normal. Well, what are they alluding to there? They're alluding to a sense of displacement from whatever feels like home or normal. But they use the term 'exile.' Are they literally in exile? To be exiled is to be banned, you know, from one place to a foreign place. It's a major trope in scripture. There are literal -- there's a literal exile of the inhabitants of Jerusalem to Babylon and there's a return. Although home doesn't turn out to be, you know... Even home is, is kind of a metaphor. Sally Brown (26:45): And we use metaphors all the time in common speech. For example, we might say, in a discussion and it's ranging all over the place... You might say if you're trying to bring people back, "Let's get back to home base and deal with, you know, the problem at hand." Are you really asking everybody to go outside, find a baseball field and find home base? No, you're not. You're using a metaphor, but the metaphor evokes the whole kind of, you know, the game and we get it. We know that we need to get back to the place from which we start. So that's one. And I already used a metaphor actually in this conversation. I talked about, is preaching meant to hand us a rule book, sort of a pocket rule book for how to handle every conceivable situation is a crucial element of information. Sally Brown (27:40): Do we really, are we really expecting people to compose or are we composing a literal physical rule book? No, but you know what I'm talking about. And I say that I don't think that's what preaching is meant to do. So we use metaphors all the time. It's a very common way of communicating in shorthand with each other. And then there are some that, you know, are used so much that they're called dead metaphors because they're not really very interesting anymore because we've been using them for so long. Like, you know, I don't know, my father used to say, boy, it's hot as blazes today. You know, which was sort of a euphemism for hell. But, that that's obviously a metaphor, you know, is it, is it literal hell out, out on the sidewalk? No. So it's non-literal and theology has treated metaphor as therefore untrustworthy obfuscation you could say the same thing perfectly clearly. Like the philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, who I mentioned earlier in relation to imaginative rehearsal for action, also wrote a bit about, quite a bit about metaphor. And he says that a metaphor allows us to evoke a depth of understanding that literal language could not achieve. For example, I talk in the book about a sermon that's well-known already to at least some of the readers of the book, preached by Dr. Anna Carter Florence, way back before she was, when she was just a brand new, young pastor, she preached at General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. And the sermon was called "At the River's Edge." She uses the story of Pharaoh's daughter, encountering the -- hearing this infant cry coming from a basket that's floating toward her on the river. The river's edge is the metaphor -- is one of the dominant metaphors of that sermon. And by the end of the sermon, we are... She places us all on the river's edge. And the river's edge is wherever we find ourselves in our ordinary lives. And the river that is life flows by and brings to us human identities and situations that we can't ignore, that we can't pretend not to hear, not to see. The river's edge is a place of being confronted with what is out there and making a decision about how we will act. So... and what's so powerful about it is that it's portable. After hearing that sermon, you recognize that you're on the edge of the river when something confronts you that you've got to deal with, you have to make an ethical decision about how to respond. So that's just one example of a metaphor and many, excellent preachers use metaphor. Dayle Rounds (30:43): That's great, Sally. What I want to ask you last is what do you hope the preacher, or just the person who picks up this book and reads it -- what do you hope they will receive by reading this and maybe have the courage to do? Sally Brown (30:59): I hope that preachers will have the courage to invite people into an imaginative engagement with stories in scripture, and also help people to reimagine their everyday world as the arena of God's constant transformative redemptive activity. And that preachers would help the people in the pews to see themselves as those potential agents of redemptive interruption in ordinary places. And it doesn't have to be as dramatic as being that the guy who stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen square. I think often it simply is looking for that opportunity in the ordinary situation to exercise mercy, inclusive love, and justice. To challenge the status quo in some way, with courage and with some imagination, and to be willing to get it wrong. I mean, improvisation is not an exact science. I guess if you ask any jazz player, for example, and I don't think improvisation is an exact science and some days it goes better than other days. But, I do think that we're called upon to be creative and inventive participants in what God is doing in the world. And I hope that preachers would be excited about that life-forming, vision-forming task and begin to use more imagination, more of the 'what if' and 'what might it look like here' kind of move. [percussive music in background] And that people in the pews would feel that transfer of energy that, you know, this sermon is finally handed to them, in the form of a new lens or a new metaphor or an animating story that helps them experience everyday life differently. So that would be my hope. I did teach out of the book this last semester, I heard some wonderful sermons from my students who really caught on to this idea of imaginative rehearsal and encouraging those in the pews to be agents of redemptive interruption in the world. Dayle Rounds (33:32): That's great. Thank you, Sally. Sally Brown (33:33): Thank you. I appreciated the conversation. Dayle Rounds (33:37): You've been listening to The Distillery. Interviews are conducted by me, Dayle Rounds. Sushama Austin-Conner (33:42): And me, Sushama Austin-Connor. Shari Oosting (33:44): And I'm Shari Oosting. Amar Peterman (33:45): I'm Amar Peterman, and I am in charge of production. Dayle Rounds (33:49): Like what you're hearing? Subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or your preferred podcast app. The Distillery is a production of Princeton Theological Seminary's Office of Continuing Education. You can find out more at thedistillery.ptsem.edu. Thanks for listening.  

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