Dr. Teresa L. Fry Brown, Associate Professor of Homiletics and Director of Black Church Studies
Dr. Fry Brown has written articles for Those Preaching Women, Vol. 3; and The Abingdon Women's Preaching Annual. Dr. Fry Brown's research interests include homiletics, womanism, womanist ethics,
socio-cultural transformation, and African
diaspora history focusing on African
American spiritual values. Dr. Fry Brown is ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church
Contact
Dr. Teresa L. Fry Brown
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
1531 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
United States
Phone: 404.727.4436
Fax: 404.727.2494
Email: tfry01@emory.edu
Education
- PhD, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver, 1996
- MDiv, Iliff School of Theology, 1988
- MS, Central Missouri State University 1975
- BS, Central Missouri State University, 1974
Publications
Books- Can A Sistah Get a Little Help: Advice and Encouragement for Black Women in Ministry, Pilgrim Press, 2008.
- Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body and Animation in Proclamation , Fortress Press, 2008.
- Weary Throats and New Songs: Black Women Proclaiming God’s Word, Abingdon Press, 2003.
- God Don’t Like Ugly: African American Women Handing on Spiritual Values, Abingdon Press, 2000.
- What Did You Say? The Language of Preaching and The Voice of the Preacher: Speaking Truth in Clarity in Teaching Preaching as a Christian Practice, Nora Tubbs Tisdale and Tom Long, editors, Westminster/John Knox 2008.
- Wesley Study Bible, five sidebars, Abingdon Press 2009.
- “Mother Day/Pentecost” in The African America Pulpit On-line Lectionary, 2008.
- “The Future of Black Preaching” in Homiletix November 2007.
- African American History Month Devotions, Abingdon Press 2006.
- “Preaching the Lesson” five entries in Lectionary Homiletics, 2006.
- African American Pulpit Library, eight entries, Kirk Byron Jones, editor, Abingdon Press, 2006.
- “Action Potential” in The Purposes of Preaching, Jana Childers, ed., Chalice Press, 2004.
- “Birthing A Sermon” in Birthing a Sermon: Women Preachers on Creative Process, Jana Childers, ed., Chalice Press 2001.
- “Renovating Sorrow’s Kitchen: African American Women Preaching Justice” in Preaching Justice, Christine Smith, ed., Pilgrim Press 1999.
- “And Are We Yet Sustaining, Surviving, or Thriving?” in The African Methodist Episcopal Church Women’s Missionary Society Quadrennial Journal, A.M.E. Church Publishing House 1999.
- “Easter Sunday” and “Easter 4” in Abingdon Women’s Preaching Annual, Series 1, Year C, Abingdon Press 1997.
- “Avoiding Asphyxiation: A Womanist Perspective on Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Transformation” in Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspectives on Hope, Salvation and Transformation, Emilie Townes, ed., Orbis Press 1997.