“PREACHING and IMAGINATION”
A Study Day for Preachers and Leaders of Worship
led by
The Rev Dr Kate Bruce
Deputy Warden and Tutor in Homiletics and
CODEC Research Fellow in Preaching, Cranmer College, Durham
on
Saturday 27 January 2018
at
Whittington Moor Methodist Church
Chesterfield, S41 8NA
09.30-10.00 Arrival & Coffee
10.00-11.00 Dipping our Toes In
11.00-12.00 Exploring the Deeps
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Hallmarks of Imaginative Preaching
14.00-15.00 Setting the Imagination Free
15.00-15.20 Break
15.20-16.00 Sample Sermon & Discussion
Please bring a packed lunch. Drinks will be provided.
To book: 01246 453651 admin@chesterfieldmethodists.org.uk
The invitation to Kate Bruce was inspired a review of her recent
book, Igniting the Heart: Preaching and Imagination:
“It has been said that the day of the sermon is over. Kate Bruce argues
that the day of the poorly conceived, ill prepared, dull, disconnected,
boring, irrelevant, authoritarian, yawn-inducing, patronizing, pontificating,
pointless and badly delivered sermon, is indeed over. Imagination can
help to engage the hearer in a sermon which seeks to evoke rather than
to inform.”
Kate was ordained in 2001, after seven very happy
years as a secondary school English teacher in
Yorkshire. Following a curacy in Ripon, she worked
as Associate Priest at St Oswald’s Durham and was
Chaplain to Van Mildert and Trevelyan Colleges.
Following this she was appointed as Chaplain to St
John’s College, a post she combined with PhD
research as Fellow in Preaching with CODEC which
included teaching, preaching and apologetics at Cranmer Hall.
She took up her post as Deputy Warden and Tutor in Homiletics in
April 2013. She was awarded her doctoral thesis on imagination
and preaching last year, and is currently working to turn this into a
book due out summer 2015.
Kate is the Fellow in Preaching at
CODEC which is a research centre of Durham University, based at
St John’s College, exploring the interfaces between the Bible,
theology, the digital environment and contemporary culture
(https://www.dur.ac.uk/codec/). As part of this she organizes and
teaches on the popular Durham Preaching Conferences which
are day conferences designed to inspire, support and enable
preachers. Kate is often asked to lead days/weekends on
preaching for new and more experienced preachers. Details of
the next Durham Preaching Conferences can be found at: https://
www.dur.ac.uk/codec/about/events/preaching-conference/
In her spare time Kate enjoys skiing, clay pigeon shooting, stand-up
comedy – and chocolate.