Make the Word Come Alive: Lessons from Laity - Mary Alice Mulligan, Ronald J. Allen

'Make the Word Come Alive' is the fourth volume in the Channels of Listening series, a Lilly Endowment funded study to learn how people listen to, understand and respond to sermons in different churches. The study involved a diverse collection of people, congregations and scholars at my seminary and elsewhere. The first three volumes have been published over the last year or so, and include 'Listening to Listeners', 'Hearing The Sermon: Relationship / Content / Feeling', and 'Believing In Preaching: What Listeners Hear In Sermons'. With this particular volume, the data collected is used to ... more