Sept. 27-28

Keynote Speaker:

G. Lee Ramsey

Care-Full Preaching

The preacher who is not a pastor grows remote;
the pastor who is not a preacher grows petty.
—Phillips Brooks

As long as pastors do their work in a congregational context, there will be a need for pastoral preaching. Yet too many preachers neglect this vital opportunity for pastoral caregiving. This year’s conference will focus on pastoral preaching. Speaker G. Lee Ramsey will guide us in discovering three vital aspects of this topic:

• The Face of the Preacher: the person of the preacher and the role of personal experience in pastoral preaching.

• Facing the Congregation: the pastoral community in which we preach.

• Word Facing World: the relationship between pastoral preaching and the concerns of the wider world—where pastoral and prophetic preaching meet.

Conference Leader

G. Lee Ramsey

ESR welcomes G. Lee Ramsey, Jr. as the keynote speaker for this year’s conference. Lee is Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Pastoral Theology at Memphis Theological Seminary. He holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and is an ordained Elder in the North Georgia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, having served as pastor at churches throughout Tennessee and Georgia.

The author of many articles and reviews, Lee also has published two books, Care-full Preaching: From Sermon to Caring Community and Speaking of Preaching, co-authored with John S. McClure and Ronald J. Allen. His current project is The Minister in Southern Fiction: A Study in Pastoral Ethics, Character, and Identity.

Lee holds leadership roles in numerous professional associations and is Project Director for Sustaining Pastoral Excellence at Memphis Theological Seminary. Along with his two children and his wife, Mary Leslie, Lee makes his home in Tennessee where he pursues hobbies of reading fiction, writing, hiking, bird-watching and fly-fishing.

Publications

"Who Cares? The Narratives of Technology, Teaching, and the Practice of Pastoral Care." Memphis Theological Seminary Journal (forthcoming).

McClure, John S., Ronald J. Allen, Dale P. Andrews, L. Susan Bond, Dan P. Moseley, G. Lee Ramsey, Jr. Listening to Listeners: Homiletical Case Studies. St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice Press, 2004.

"The Theology and Practice of Pastoral Preaching." Quarterly Review, no. Summer (2002).

"Preaching to Form a Pastoral Community." Circuit Rider, no. July/August (2001).

Care-Full Preaching : From Sermon to Caring Community. St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice Press, 2000.

"God's Joy, God's Delight." Christian Ministry 29 (1998): 27-28.

"Preaching and the Rhetoric of Care: Forming a Pastoral Community for Care in the World." Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1998.

Links

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