Papers by Casey T Sigmon
Religions
This article is an invitation to truly postmodern conversational approaches to preaching beyond a... more This article is an invitation to truly postmodern conversational approaches to preaching beyond a monological modern mass media sermon dressed up in conversational style. This involves proposing a new who and how for preaching in the digital age, resulting in a New (Media) homiletic. Engaging with Parker J. Palmer’s The Courage to Teach, this article first explores issues with the traditional top-down model for preaching solidified during the age of mass media technoculture. Next this article names some stumbling blocks to dialogical preaching in a mainline Protestant US context. Then this article explores what difference the implementation of Palmer’s Community of Truth model could make for preaching in this digital age. The technoculture of social media allows for and expects preachers to be more conversational in the who and how of sermon delivery, preparation, and feedback.
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Word & World, 2022
Unable to leave the house safely for worship and fellowship in March of 2020, many turned to soci... more Unable to leave the house safely for worship and fellowship in March of 2020, many turned to social media to socialize and maintain community. This turn to media (and, for others, turning up the input of logged online engagement) was an attempt to not drown in isolation. After all, not everyone has built-in community in their place of residence. And not everyone with the company built in is sustained by those relationships. From anxiety, disruption, and loneliness people reached out for community through digital platforms. I was one of those people. Early on, I organized social events as I would in non-pandemic times but on platforms: happy hour with other teachers on Google Hangouts (because it had the best plugins); playing DJ for a Zoom karaoke night; and of course, hours of scrolling Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to see how my fellow humans were faring. In the fight against Covid-19 and white supremacy, I and others turned to social media to not feel so alone and to find a community of empathetic coconspirators. Even before the pandemic, the intrusion of technology into our lives and communities was accelerating, and now it is clear that the anxieties of the digital age are magnified by these new platforms. Christians are called to take charge in creating genuine and authentic communities, whether digital or otherwise.
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Religions 14:551, 2023
This article is an invitation to truly postmodern conversational approaches to preaching beyond a... more This article is an invitation to truly postmodern conversational approaches to preaching beyond a monological modern mass media sermon dressed up in conversational style. This involves proposing a new who and how for preaching in the digital age, resulting in a New (Media) homiletic. Engaging with Parker J. Palmer’s The Courage to Teach, this article first explores issues with the traditional top-down model for preaching solidified during the age of mass media technoculture. Next this article names some stumbling blocks to dialogical preaching in a mainline Protestant US context. Then this article explores what difference the implementation of Palmer’s Community of Truth model could make for preaching in this digital age. The technoculture of social media allows for and expects preachers to be more conversational in the who and how of sermon delivery, preparation,
and feedback.
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Religions, Nov 29, 2022
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Review & Expositor, 2019
Colossians shines a light onto how some early churches on the margins of society adjusted to ever... more Colossians shines a light onto how some early churches on the margins of society adjusted to everyday life in the midst of a non-Christian society. Engaging baptismal liturgy and hymnody, the Colossian authors instruct Christians in the Lycus Valley (western Turkey) to beware of philosophies and ascetic practices competing for their devotion. According to Colossians, the baptized are now living a new life in Christ, the head of the Church and cosmos. New fruit is visible evidence to the outside world of the cosmic reconciliation that occurred through the cross of Jesus Christ. As dramatic as the shift in cosmic order may seem in the first chapters of the letter, however, the latter half creates a challenge for the preacher. The authors seem to accommodate the radical new life in Christ to the wider Greco-Roman culture, resulting in a diminished role for women in the church and an acceptance of the slave–master dichotomy. Both accommodations in Colossians haunt our legacy as Christ’s...
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Homiletic, Jun 2, 2018
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Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 2021
Preaching platforms have always influenced the message preachers prepare and the message people r... more Preaching platforms have always influenced the message preachers prepare and the message people receive, for good and for ill. The shift from the pulpit platform to social media platforms during stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic reveals a legacy of White supremacy haunting the sanctuary. This essay explores this legacy, its relationship with technoculture, and its impact on the practice of White preaching.
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Review & Expositor, 2017
unfounded, Burris says, “Today we can learn from this story as well. If we are not careful, we wi... more unfounded, Burris says, “Today we can learn from this story as well. If we are not careful, we will become fretful over negative things we imagine might happen. But, like Victorinus, we should make our stand with God and let the rest take care of itself; for often what we imagine is never realized” (p. 77). The title of this volume is Wisdom from Africa, and thus the reader might expect to learn something about the distinctive character of the Christian church in North Africa during late antiquity. Because Augustine mostly takes that kind of background information for granted, however, this is not something that appears prominently in the exposition of his text. Anyone interested in the historical, political, and ecclesiastical context of Augustine’s North Africa will find much useful information in Burris’s previous book, Where is the Church? Martyrdom, Persecution, and Baptism in North Africa from the Second to the Fifth Century (Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2012). Meanwhile, Wisdom from Africa is bound to inspire more people to read the Confessions for themselves, and to profit from what they read.
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Review & Expositor, 2020
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Homiletic, 2015
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Homiletic, 2015
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In order to explore novel possibilities for preaching in this technological age, we first need to... more In order to explore novel possibilities for preaching in this technological age, we first need to get un-stuck from the binary of pulpit/pew. Traditional projects in homiletic theory have taken as their implicit or explicit center the dance/line/space/[fill in the blank here] between pulpit and pew. This is because our guild organized in a historical moment of the church familiar with stability, reliant upon stationary buildings housing pulpits and pews as well as stable theological institutions established to train leaders for those pulpits. With foundations in this binary, anything—including preaching practices via social media—outside of the pulpit and pew paradigm tends to be written off as invalid preaching or subpar practice. Deconstructing the binary could set the stage for the guild to appreciate preaching with greater imagination and help steer practitioners into an unknown future for the institutional church, but a certain future for preaching.
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