Recording Now Available: CEIE Webinar with Dr. Mark Lloyd Taylor
Posted: December 1, 2022
Rev. Dr. Taylor, accompanied by three of his former students, explores the role of imagination: in the work and play of a year of preaching; the church-in-the-world; and its relationship with justice.
The center’s first hybrid webinar of the fall quarter, this event took place Sept. 22. In-person attendees were provided with a light lunch. Dr. Mark Lloyd Taylor was accompanied by three of his former students:
- Allison Cannady-Smith, a School of Theology and Ministry alumna, pastor of Bailey AME Church, associate vice president for constituent relations at the University of Puget Sound, and a member of the CEIE Advisory Council;
- Jin Lee, MDiv Chaplaincy candidate; and
- Emily Linderman, chaplain at Stanford Healthcare and the University of California, San Francisco.
During the questions and answers segment of the webinar, Rev. Dr. Edward Donalson III asked: "What are your hopes for transformation in preaching - looking forward to what will be?"
Dr. Taylor answered: "One hope is that other preachers might be nudged by my book to, more imaginatively, compose and deliver their own sermons. For people who do hear sermons, week after week, maybe there’s something in the book that equips them to hear with different ears? Ears of their heart, ears of their imaginations and so forth.”
Dr. Mark Lloyd Taylor is professor emeritus at Seattle University, having taught theology, worship and preaching there for 25 years. He serves St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Seattle) in several roles, including associate for liturgy and Godly Play teacher, and is a licensed lay preacher in the Diocese of Olympia. Dr. Taylor’s scholarship addresses the love of God; body, gender and Jesus Christ; feminist, womanist and process theologies; Melville and Kierkegaard; emergent worship; and child theology.
His book So Fill Our Imaginations: The Work and Play of a Year of Preaching is available here.
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