Students engage diverse modern and postmodern theories of preaching to explore challenges facing contemporary preachers, clarify their convictions about preaching. Figures we engage include Buttrick, Campbell, Carter-Florence, Craddock, Gonzalez & Gonzalez, Kim, LaRue, Long, Lowry, Mitchell, and Rose. Assignments will include classroom presentation on a figure, a paper in which the student will explore their own homiletic in light of their context and the readings and a sermon.