Who is Afraid of Sports? Play, Bodies, and Formation (Part Two)

Dr. John B. White
Assistant Professor and holder of the Harold and Dottie Riley Professorship in Practical Theology and Director of the Sport Chaplaincy/Ministry Program at George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University

Festival of Theology and Reunion
Greenhoe Lecture
March 28, 2017

Greenhoe Lecturer John White offers more insights to pastoral guidance for those involved in major college sports.  Listen to the lecture.

What’s Pastoral About Pastoral Counseling?

Loren L. Townsend

Henry Morris Edmonds Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling

February 5, 2009

Dr. Townsend’s address for the Convocation of the spring semester looks at how pastoral counselors and pastoral counseling have changed since 1990; what pastoral counselors “look like now; what continues to be pastoral about pastoral counselors; and theological questions that arise as a result of changes in pastoral counselors and their identity. Read the address in PDF.

Final Exam

Robert Howard
Adjunct Professor of Homiletics

Matthew 25:31-46
Originally preached on November 18, 2005

Jesus Christ gives us his own version of a "final exam" in the final judgment image of the sorting of the sheep and the goats. What seems to be important for Jesus are the ordinary human actions of feeding, clothing, visiting, and caring for the outsiders with whom Christ identifies. Whenever we do care for them we will find the Christ for whom we long.

Listen to the sermon.

Read the sermon in PDF.

The Good Pastor

While Chapel services are on hiatus during the summer we present our most downloaded sermons from the archive. We begin with our most-downloaded address.

Dean K. Thompson
President and Professor of Ministry

July 2004
216th General Assembly in Richmond, VA

An address presented to alums and guests. Listen to the address. Read the address in pdf.

Living with Grief

Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff
Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,

University of Virginia
Noah Porter Professor (Emeritus) of Philosophical Theology,

Yale University

Caldwell Lecture
March 12, 2007

Dr. Wolterstorff guides pastoral caregivers in ways to help individuals own, not disown, their grief and learn to live with grief as a part of their life story. Listen to the lecture.

Forgiveness and Beyond

Rev. Dr. Joretta L. Marshall
Professor of Pastoral Theology and Care
Eden Theological Seminary

Greenhoe Lecture
March 13, 2007

It is the Christian’s vocation to seek healing and reconciliation with individuals and within communities. Dr. Marshall describes what forgiveness is and what it is not and outlines a process of forgiveness for those who incorporate it into pastoral care. Listen to the lecture.