Pastors4Pastors

The Revs. Kim Priddy and Darryl Aaron are friends and colleagues who have developed a fascinating weekly pattern of sermon preparation they call a laboratory...and a playground.  What makes their story even more interesting and inspiring is the diversity of their backgrounds.  She's a white Presbyterian and he's an African-American Baptist.  Their divergent traditions enable them to bring a richness to each other's sermons and their friendship is a delight to behold!

You're going to be inspired by this podcast; perhaps even inspired to find someone with whom you can start such a sermon preparation laboratory yourself!

If you would like to listen to Rev. Priddy's or Aaron's sermons they are available at: https://sedgefieldpresbyterian.org (Kim)
and
https://www.pbcgso.org (Darryl)

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The work of the Holy Spirit in the creative process of bringing a word from the Lord for the Lord's people is an amazing thing.  How do those messages come to us week by week?!  And then there are special friendships that spark even more creativity to our messages.  Our guest this time is an especially gifted artist whose work has inspired some pretty creative moments in me.  Enjoy this enlightening and enjoyable conversation and the Spirit-led friendship!

An inspiring conversation with the Rev. Randy Harris, pastor of Highland Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, NC, a predominantly white church that is confronting their own white privilege and working against racism.  Randy gives positive, concrete suggestions of ways white congregations can "do the work" we are called to do, which begins by refusing to hit the snooze button and wake up to the reality of white privilege and black oppression.

Some suggested books for church groups to read together:

• Debbie Irving, Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
• Daniel Hill and Brenda Salter McNeill, White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
• Eric Mason, John M. Perkins, et. al., Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice
• Latasha Morrison, Jennie Allen, et. al., Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
• Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism
  
  

Conversation with 8 pastors about their experience of adapting to being the church in a time when congregations cannot meet in person, pastors have to adjust to preaching to a camera and an empty sanctuary, and the toll it takes on them and their people.