Societas Homiletica – day two!

The second day of the conference has now ended. Vi started with morning meditation. Anne Gidion claimed that you cannot argue with fear. The only thing one can do is to tell counterstories. She told us about a project in the German Church where you tell hopestories as counterstories to hatestories. The hashtag is

From #hateSpeech to #hopeSpeech

After that the President, Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm, whit Swedish origin on her maternal side, gave her Address. This speech was followed by group reflections.

After lunch and an international panel with participants from South Africa, India and Venezuela it was time for presentations. I presented a paper on prophetic preaching. I got a lot of valuable feedback and was also encouraged to continue working and maybe publish a book on the topic.

My colleague, Gunilla Renöfält, who teaches in Lund, also presented her paper in a panel. She did very well and got many positive comments.

The day ended with Jazz Vespers. John Brown “little” Big band played and at the end of the service we were all on our feet dancing and rejoicing.

I am going to sleep well tonight!