New Online Resource Curates Duke Chapel Preaching Tradition
A new online resource presents insights into the rich and deep tradition of preaching at Duke University Chapel through the expertise of Duke Divinity School faculty, research by Duke students, and the reflections of renowned preachers.
Visit Living Tradition online on the Duke Chapel website at chapel.duke.edu/livingtradition.
“Drawing on a chorus of preaching voices over the decades at Duke Chapel, Living Tradition is a dynamic teaching, learning, and research resource for ministers, seminarians, lay people, and scholars of many disciplines,” said the Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery, dean of Duke Chapel and an associate professor of homiletics at Duke Divinity School. “In addition to serving the academy and church broadly, this project also speaks to the historic and ongoing intersection of faith and learning here at Duke.”
Launched on December 2, the Living Tradition webpages serve as an introduction to, and a pedagogical tool for, the Duke Chapel Recordings digital archive, hosted on the Duke Libraries website, which contains more than 3,000 videos, audio recordings, and manuscripts of sermons given at Duke Chapel from 1946 to 2002.
Beginning with sermons from groundbreaking preachers such as Billy Graham, Bernice King, Howard Thurman, Phyllis Trible, and Desmond Tutu, Living Tradition sets these archival sermons into the context of the present moment through interviews, selected quotations, research presentations, and discussion questions.