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Preaching

Grace Covenant Sermons

“Rise Up”
Easter 2017

"To Be Well"

Sermon from May 5, 2013
At Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill, NC
Psalm 67; John 5:1-9
Listen to audio recording

Sermon "Eternity Now!" at First Presbyterian Church of Libertyville

Collegiate Athletes Rights Play Book

Episode 1

Episode 2

Podcasts

Nancy Hawthorne Interviews Marcia Mount Shoop On Moderndayflappers.com

Going Deep: Sports in the 21st Century

Theological Conversation

"A Conversation about Ethnography and Poetics in the Theological Method" With Susan Dunlap, Mary McClintock Fulkerson, and Marcia Mount Shoop

video_still_may2013Video: “A Conversation about Ethnography and Poetics in the Theological Method”
With Susan Dunlap, Mary McClintock Fulkerson, and Marcia Mount Shoop
From the Spring 2013 issue of Practical Matters Journal

For Congregations

Embodied Prayers of the People

Embodied Prayers of the People
by Marcia Mount Shoop
Inspired by Native American and Celtic prayers.

Embodied Prayer of Confession

Embodied Prayer of Confession (PDF)
by Marcia Mount Shoop
Many thanks to singer/songwriter Elise Witt for the song used in the above prayer.

Publications by Marcia Mount Shoop

“Body-Wise: Re-fleshing Christian Spiritual and Theological Practice in Trauma’s Wake,” in Trauma and Transcendence: Limits of Theory and Prospects in Thinking, Peter Capretto and Eric Boynton, Editors (Forthcoming from Fordham University Press, Fall 2017).

“Oceans of Love and Turbulent Seas: Mothering an Anxious Child and the Spirituality of Ambiguity,” in Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters, Claire Bischoff, Elizabeth Gandolfo, and Annie Hardison-Moody, Editors (Forthcoming from Palgrave MacMillan Press, Fall 2017).

A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed:  Race, Memory, and Eucharist in White-Dominant Churches, co-authored with Mary McClintock-Fulkerson, (Cascade Books, October 2015)

“Thy Presence is My Stay” in Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Feminists on Why We Stay (White Cloud Press, 2015)

Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports (Cascade Books, July 2014)

Shall We Dance?  is an invited response to a paper by Curtis L. Thompson entitled Dancing in God: The Relevance of Ritual for Conceiving the Divine Today (University of Chicago Divinity School Website, September 2011)

Let the Bones Dance: Embodiment and the Body of Christ (Westminster/John Knox Press, September 2010)

Theological Perspective Essay on 1 Samuel 1:4-20 in Feasting on the Word: Preaching from the Revised Common Lectionary, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, (Westminster John Knox Press, June 2008)

Theology Perspective Essay on 2 Samuel 23:1-7 in Feasting on the Word: Preaching from the Revised Common Lectionary, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, (Westminster John Knox Press, June 2008)

Theology Perspective Essay on Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 in in Feasting on the Word: Preaching from the Revised Common Lectionary, edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, (Westminster John Knox Press, June 2008)

“More Than Skin Deep,” in Wide Open Spaces, edited by Carol Henderson (Circle Books of John Hunt Publishing, 2011) ~A book on call narratives with writing prompts included to assist readers in writing about their own call to ministry.

“Embodying Theology:  Motherhood as Method/Metaphor,” in Women, Writing, Theology, edited by Emily Holmes (Baylor Press, 2011).

Lectionary Devotions for May 9-15, 2010 for These Days: Daily Devotions for Living by Faith (Louisville, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2010)

Lectionary Devotions for October 15-21, 2006 for These Days: Daily Devotions for Living by Faith (Louisville, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2006)

“Mary,” The Presbytery Outlook at www.pres-outlook.com/advent/9485-mary.html

Book Review of Controversies in Body Theology, edited by Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood. Controversies in Contextual Theology Series. London UK: SCM Press, 2008.

Book Review of Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics (Louisville, W/JKP, 2006), in The Presbyterian Outlook vol. 190 no. 33 (October 6, 2008)

Book Review of Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics (Louisville, W/JKP, 2006), in Theological Studies 69/2 (June 2008)

Book Review of The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth (Louisville, W/JKP, 2005), in The Presbyterian Outlook (May 2006)

Book Review of The Transforming God: An Interpretation of Suffering and Evil (Louisville, W/JKP, 1997), in Theology Today (April 1998)

Sermon Excerpts

Movies/Documentaries on Race

Race: The Power of an Illusion, California Newsreel
To access go to: www.newsreel.org

Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, a film by Shakti Butler, Ph.D.
To access go to: www.world-trust.org

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