Donyelle McCray

Donyelle C. McCray is Associate Professor of Homiletics at Yale University Divinity School. Her scholarship focuses on African American preaching, sermon genre, and modes of authority. She is the author of The Censored Pulpit: Julian of Norwich as Preacher.

Advent Devotions for an Uncertain Time
The world is slowly emerging from the worst global emergency in a century, and the myriad struggles of the contemporary moment—division, isolation, illness, and uncertainty—make living our faith a challenge. For Christians, a number of questions have gained new urgency: Where do we find hope when it seems in such short supply? Where are the signs of God’s peace in this divided world? Where do we find a deeper sense of joy? Thomas G. Long and Donyelle C. McCray remind us that these are the ques...
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Publication Date: 08/24/2021
Art, Activism, and Genre Fluidity in African American Preaching

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Donyelle McCray

Is It a Sermon? is an informative and daring call to blur the boundaries of the sermon genre, exploring the “shoreline” of homiletics, or the place where preaching laps up against other modes of discourse. In this book, Donyelle McCray explores how preaching merges with prayer, song, performance, and activism—the gospel dancing in and out of the forms we create for it. Consider the sermonic performance of Isaiah walking naked and barefoot for three years, the deaconess whose morning prayer rhyth...
Price: $28.00
Publication Date: 10/08/2024