Christine M. Smith
Professor of Preaching
Ordained
minister in the United Church of Christ
Appointed 1991
| preaching
and social analysis |
| celebrating
and proclaiming resurrection |
preaching
justice from ethnic and cultural perspectives
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women's
studies
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lesbian/gay/bi-sexual/transgendered
studies
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| pottery
and proclamation |
| poetry/preacher
dialogue |
| intercultural
education and immersion trips |
| advanced
preaching seminars |
“Preaching:
Hospitality, De-Centering, Re-Membering, and Right Relations”
Purposes of Preaching, edited by Jana Childers
(Chalice Press, 2004)
“Repentance:
Hope for the World”
The Living Pulpit, Vol. 13 No. 3
(July-September 2004)
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Risking
the Terror: Resurrection in this Life
(Pilgrim Press, 2001)
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“Touching
Hand to Clay: The Transformation of a Preacher”
ARTS, pp. 4-7
(Nov 1999)
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Preaching
Justice: Ethnic and Cultural Perspectives
(United Church Press, 1998) |
“Second
Sunday of Easter and Third Sunday of Easter”
The Abingdon Women’s Preaching Annual,
edited by Jana L. Childers and Lucy A. Rose
(Abingdon Press, 1997)
“Preaching”
Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, edited by
Letty Russell and J. Shannon Clarkson
(Westminster/John Knox Press, 1996)
“Preaching
as an Art of Resistance”
The Arts of Ministry: Feminist-Womanist Approaches,
edited by Christie Cozad Neuger
(Westminster/John Knox Press, 1996)
B.G.S.
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Ohio
University |
| M.Div. |
Methodist
Theological School in Ohio |
M.A.
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Methodist
Theological School in Ohio |
Ph.D.
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Graduate
Theological Union |
I
treasure the companionship and challenging love of family
and friends, music and dancing enliven my spirit, camping
and gardening bring me back to self and creation, probing
conversations and attentive social analysis keep me honest
and accountable to those things that make for life. I am
finding some of my greatest joy in life while traveling
with students on cross cultural immersion trips.
Contact
Chris at csmith@unitedseminary.edu or
651-255-6128.
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“Teaching
the basic preaching course year after year after
year remains one of my greatest passions and a
source of great joy. To watch new preachers as
they come to understand the great power and hope
of the proclaimed word in people’s lives,
and to hear their voices become more artistic and
more faithful on behalf of the claims of God’s
justice in the world, is unspeakably holy.”
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“In
recent years the commitments that I have always had
to cross cultural immersion education have been ignited
anew. To build community with students as we travel to
other parts of the world, and out of our familiar comfortable
lives, is a rare learning experience. To seek to connect
with people in Northern New Mexico, Guatemala, and Chiapas,
Mexico, across lines of class, ethnicity, and culture,
and to let their voices and their struggles for justice
change us, is a transformative learning experience that
is unlike any other.”
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“I
would hope that preachers who are trained at United
Theological Seminary would reflect
in their ministries
in the world, and in their prophetic preaching, an
uncompromising commitment to justice for
all God’s creation. That
they would know in their hearts and souls that to be
pastoral is to be prophetic, and to be prophetic is
to be profoundly pastoral.”
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“There
are several concerns that inform my professional
and personal life and create in me a sense of passionate
faith. I am concerned about the centrality of a sacramental
understanding of life in which we are called to discern
and proclaim how the spirit moves and breathes through
all of life. I am committed to the church as that
which is called to create and sustain communities
of radical love and justice. I am concerned about
urban and rural renewal. I am committed to forging
a relationship between theology and the arts. I am
concerned about the relentless work of weaving together
individual spiritual formation with global acts of
justice and transformation.” |
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