THE WOMANPREACH! WAY
At WomanPreach!, we do one thing and do that one thing well and consistently. We help preachers preach.
We help preachers, speakers, activists, and leaders find focus, voice, process, and courage. Good preaching is persuasive preaching. It helps those who hear the gospel imagine a world where all are loved, valued, and treated with dignity and respect. It helps those who hear to imagine and, in hands-on ways, strive for a world where everyone’s daily needs are met and where all creation is protected and honored.
We do nothing without collaboration.
We cultivate authentic prophetic voices and inspire compelling preaching.
We rest and play as hard as we work.
We value the arts as sacred texts.
Womanist justice-seeking and liberation are our ethics.
We reject misogyny, cis-heterosexism, ableism, white supremacy, and classism as barriers to the pulpit or any ground for proclamation.
OUR PROGRAMMING
WomanPreach! Inc. offers weekend Preaching Intensives both in-person and online. In addition, if partners are interested in shorter training or a sampling of our sessions, we also provide curated Digital Mini Intensives. Themes and foci for Preaching Intensives are selected in collaboration with partners and address the topics and needs most pressing and of interest to our partners and the region for the program.
PREACHING INTENSIVES
Our Digital Wisdom Conversations are a free opportunity for participants to listen to the wisdom and perspectives of world-renowned theologians, historians, Biblical scholars, preachers, activists, and pastors. Our annual Conversations are broadcast live in February, May, and December. Our May and December conversations are curated by the Board. Partners may request conversations throughout the year.
digital wisdom conversations
The Jarena Lee Preaching Academy (JLPA) is a biennial, weeklong intensive for women of the Black diaspora. Held in June at Methodist Theological School in Ohio, JLPA offers plenary sessions, community learning, practice, training, and time for rest and retreat. The next Academy will be in June of 2024. The application will be open from January 18 - February 28, 2023. Previous preaching experience is not required.
jarena lee preaching academy
Each year, we host two writing series that feature reflections, sermons, devotions, poetry, prose, and other written works from our partners and #WomanPreachNation. Our Holy Week Series, The Gospel According to Women, runs daily from Holy Monday to Ressurection Sunday. Our Advent series, More than a Prologue, runs each Sunday during Advent and on Christmas Eve.
Holy Week & ADvent Writing Series
We do nothing without collaboration
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We cultivate authentic prophetic voices and inspire compelling preaching
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We rest and play as hard as we work
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We value the arts as sacred texts
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Womanist justice-seeking and liberation are our ethics.
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We reject misogyny, cis-heterosexism, ableism, white supremacy, and classism as barriers to the pulpit or any ground for proclamation
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We do nothing without collaboration • We cultivate authentic prophetic voices and inspire compelling preaching • We rest and play as hard as we work • We value the arts as sacred texts • Womanist justice-seeking and liberation are our ethics. • We reject misogyny, cis-heterosexism, ableism, white supremacy, and classism as barriers to the pulpit or any ground for proclamation •
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