Following the work of Lenora Tubbs Tisdale, this course explores a variety of issues related to women and preaching, giving students encouragement to discover, explore, and enhance their own unique voices in the pulpit. Topics to be addressed include: the history of women as preachers, the variety of styles and voices in which women proclaim the Word, construal of gender as it relates to the authority of the preacher, Biblical and theological interpretation for the preaching task, and the creative process of sermon preparation.