Yale University Library Research Guides: Resources for Preaching: Gender

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God Comes Out: A Queer Homiletic by Olive Elaine Hinnant Develops a homiletic from the perspective of the LGBT community, or “queer.”
Justice Calls: Sermons of Welcome and Affirmation (Online) by Phil Snider This collection of sermons adds compelling clarity to the growing chorus of Christian voices that are passionate about LGBTQ justice and equality.
Preacher Woman: A Critical Look at Sexism Without Sexists by Katie Lauve-Moon Focuses on religious congregations that separated from their mainline denomination in order to support women's equal leadership.
Saved from Silence: Finding Women's Voice in Preaching by Mary Donovan Turner; Mary Lin Hudson Looks at the metaphor of voice, how women are moving to voice from silence, and how women preachers can make themselves heard.
Telling the Truth: Preaching About Sexual and Domestic Violence by John S. McClure A guide for ministers searching for theological and ethical perspectives with which to frame an effective pulpit, teaching, and pastoral ministry of issues of sexual and domestic violence.
Women Preaching: Theology and Practice Through the Ages by Eunjoo Mary Kim Considers the development of homiletics by joining together the history of women preachers with theological reflection.

Can a Sistah Get a Little Help?: Encouragement For Black Women In Ministry by Teresa L. Fry Brown The author shares many of her rich life experiences as a black clergywoman and seminary professor to help black women in their obstacles in ministry.
How Women Transform Preaching (Online) by Leonora Tubbs Tisdale Explores how the presence of women preachers and scholars of preaching has transformed the practice of homiletics.
Introducing Feminist Perspectives on Pastoral Theology by Zoe Bennett Moore Explores why the inclusion of women's experiences and of feminist perspectives is important to Christian pastoral practice and to a Christian understanding of God.
The Arts of Ministry: Feminist-Womanist Approaches by Christie Cozad Neuger Brings together the best in feminist and womanist scholarship that deals with the work of ministry in a one-volume format.
The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric From the Pulpit by Kimberly P. Johnson Performs a close textual analysis of five womanist sermons to see how womanist preaching transforms/adapts the tenets of womanist thought to preaching.
Toward a Womanist Homiletic: Katie Cannon, Alice Walker, and Emancipatory Proclamation by Donna E. Allen Builds on the work of Katie G. Cannon and Alice Walker to offer a womanist paradigm for analyzing the sermons of Black women and proposes the content of a womanist homiletic.