by academyofpreachers | Dec 12, 2018 | Blog, News, News Article
I find that there are a few things in life that paradoxically both encourage and terrify me. Knowing how much pizza I can eat in one sitting gives me a childish pride, but it also makes me anxious about stepping on the scale. Knowing that my wife loves me fills me...
by academyofpreachers | Oct 5, 2018 | Blog, My AoP Story, News, News Article, Tyler Best
Anxious. Elated. Hesitant. Eager. Preaching can be a wild mix of conflicting emotions as one prepares and delivers a sermon. My sophomore-in-college-self was rarely the timid, reserved person I remember being at my first National Festival of Young Preachers in 2012....
by academyofpreachers | Sep 19, 2018 | Blog, Ernest Brooks III, My AoP Story, News, News Article
Over 1,000 Young Preachers have attended the National Festival of Young Preachers since the first Festival in 2010. Over 1,000 students, ministers, and others inspired to preach could tell you their story of how they came to their first Festival. For some, it was...
by academyofpreachers | Sep 5, 2018 | Academy of Preachers, Blog, National festivals, News, News Article
At the 2018 National Festival of Young Preachers, Rev. Melanie Jones, one of the many experts in their fields who preach and teach at the National Festival, presented a Master Class titled Womanist Preaching in a Millenial Age. She discussed what Womanist Theology is,...
by academyofpreachers | Aug 29, 2018 | Blog, My AoP Story, National festivals, News, News Article, Nick Bettis, Young Preachers
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a Pentecostal, an Eastern-Orthodox seminary student, and a Catholic Friar walk into a bar… At the 2015 National Festival of Young Preachers, I met two people who would end up defining my Festival experience. The first was...
by academyofpreachers | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog, National festivals, News, News Article, Uncategorized
Our mentors shape our ideas about what mentoring should look like. Darlene Hutto, AoP Board member and Director of Strategic Partnerships for Leadership Networks for the Forum for Theological Exploration, led a Master Class on Mentoring from the Mentee’s...
