Preaching & Neurodivergence
The Bridge for Early Career Preachers hosts an online conversation about the intersection between preaching and neurodivergence.
Reader Recommendation: Preaching & Neurodivergence
Recommended by: The Proclamation Project
Why it might be helpful: This webinar provides thought-provoking conversation about preaching with an understanding that all of us have different ways of being in the world.
Preaching & Neurodivergence is a recorded webinar exploring what it means to preach — and to be preached to — when we acknowledge that human brains and bodies work in diverse ways. The conversation takes seriously the reality that neurodivergent preachers and congregants bring different patterns of attention, communication, and meaning-making to the act of proclamation. Rather than treating this as a problem to accommodate, the webinar invites a more fundamental question: What does preaching that genuinely welcomes neurological diversity look like, and what might it offer the church?
This resource is part of the Bridge Conversations series and is useful both for preachers who identify as neurodivergent and for those who want to preach in ways that reach a fuller range of how their congregants experience the world.
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Reader Recommendations are suggestions submitted by Disciples preachers and are not created or fully reviewed by the Proclamation Project.
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- The Sound of the Genuine — Dr. Frank Thomas’s retreat keynote on authenticity and vulnerability as the foundation of preaching.
