Grimké Preaching, Leadership, and Evangelical Feminism
Catching you up on what you may have missed.
Last week we gathered in Richmond for our first Grimké Seminary intensive of the year and celebrated a milestone: our fifth year anniversary for Grimké Seminary. From the start, one of our desires was to publish an online theological journal to serve our students, their churches, and our broader reading audience. As Grimké Seminary marks anniversaries, we’re also grateful for the authors who have contributed to Sola Ecclesia and for you, our readers.
Here are few essays you may have missed over the past two months.
Complementarians and the Rise of Second-Wave Evangelical Feminism, Bryan Laughlin and Doug Ponder - Professors Lauglin and Ponder teamed up to write a sweeping essay charting the rise of second-wave evangelical feminism. Ever since the creation of the term complementarian in the 1980s, Christians have sought to protect the biblical teaching on gender. This essay provides you with an overview of the history of evangelical feminism, its most recent iteration, and how we should continue to stand firm on what the church has always believed about men and women.
A Crisis of Leadership and the Elder Solution (Part 1): Theology is Upstream, Joe Holland - I’ve been fascinated with the study of leadership, especially leadership in the church, since I started pastoring in my early twenties. This is part one of a series I’m writing on how to think about leadership in the church, understand leadership in the world, and how church elders are at the center of it all.
Learning Homiletics from Francis J. Grimké, Matt Cohen - Professor Cohen is deep into studying the homletical method of the man after whom we named our seminar—Francis J. Grimké. In this first estallment, professor Cohen draws attention to Grimké’s contention that each sermon should have one, main point. Grimké helps us hone our homiletic method so that we can avoid both vague preaching and mere pulpiteering.
As always, I am thankful for the time you take to read the essays we’re publishing for the honor of Christ and his glory in the church.