Leonora Tubbs Tisdale is the Clement-Muehl Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School. Her research and teaching interests include: prophetic preaching, women and preaching, and congregational studies and preaching. She is the author or editor of ten books, including "Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art, Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach, Teaching Preaching as a Christian Practice, "and three volumes of the "Abingdon Women s Preaching Annual. "She also served as one the authors of "The History of the Riverside Church in New York City, "writing the chapter on that church s rich...