April 7, 2022 Rev. Dr. Teaira Parker CommunityConnections:  Wesley MDiv 2019; Salvation and Social Justice: Black Church Civic Engagement Fellow; Pastor, Broad Street UMC Greater New Jersey Conference Movie Title: God Pulled A Bait and Switch God Pulled A Bait and Switch ~ Genesis 17:1-8 I gave real thought to what the title […]

    April 6, 2022 Alyssa Nantt CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv 2nd Year Student, WTS Student Pastor Program; Pastor of three churches in Somerset County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland Movie Title: The Great Balancing Act Deliverance ~ Daniel 3:14-20, 24-28, NRSV King Nebuchadnezzar asks the young Jewish men Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego an important […]

    April 5, 2022 Rev. Dr. Richard C. Flippin CommunityConnections:  WTS DMin 2014; Executive Pastor, The Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA Movie Title: Mo’ Better Blues, directed and produced by Spike Lee In the Wilderness, We Rediscover God ~ Numbers 21:4-9 The Children of Israel are now in the wilderness.  They are […]

    April 4, 2022 Fredericka Sands CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv 2016, DMin Student, Life Together Track; Alfred Street Baptist Church, Minister-In-Training Movie Title: Becoming: Almost, But Not Yet Psalm 23 for Such a Time as This Most gracious One who is beyond form or gender but as near as our breath.  Please hear us. You […]

    April 3, 2022 Rev. Dr. J. Maddox (Matt) Woodbery, Jr. CommunityConnections:  WTS DMin, 2015; WTS Board Member; Wesley Council Donor Movie Title: A Journey of Discovery Perceiving Great and New Things ~ John 12: 1-8 The scene that the Evangelist sets is almost comedic.  Over there is once-dead Lazarus, sipping his wine, and […]

    April 2, 2022 Rev. Dr. JaNice Parks CommunityConnections:  WTS MA 2014, DMin Student – Spirituality and Story Track; WTS Director of Enrollment; Worship Ministry Coordinator, Emory Fellowship UMC, DC Movie Title: The Gift of Favor The Crowd ~ Jeremiah 11:18-20; Psalm 7:6-11; John 7:37-52 The past couple of years have been filled with […]

    April 1, 2022 Dr. Leven Chuck Wilson CommunityConnections:  WTS Wesley Council Donor Movie Title: Mission Impossible Mission Impossible ~ Luke 18:27 If I had to compare my life to a movie, it would be “Mission Impossible”.  A few years ago, I was diagnosed with an illness that threatened my life.  I realized that […]

    March 31, 2022 Rev. Lee Russell Brown, Jr., M.Div., M.Ed. CommunityConnections:  WTS Office of Community Life Program Administrator; Itinerant Elder, African Methodist Episcopal Church, East TN Annual Conference Movie Title: God’s Complicated Masterpieces Can I Get A Witness? ~ John 5:30-47 Central to the black homiletic experience is that cultural artifact commonly known […]

    March 30, 2022 Reverend Kevin Highfield CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv 2018; WTS MTS Anticipated 2022; Methodist Church of Great Britain, Presbyter Movie Title: Sense 8 We Are Not Alone ~ Isaiah 49: 9, 12, 14, 16 God calls us to come out and be free; all of us, everywhere.  I found the hardest part […]

    March 29, 2022 Youtha Hardman-Cromwell CommunityConnections:  WTS Professor, Practice in Ministry and Mission Emeritus; Retired Clergy, Virginia Conference The United Methodist Church; Trinity UMC Alexandria, VA Movie Title: The Questioner Remember What We’ve Reaped ~ Psalm 126 Do you feel that you have been living captive to COVID-19?  Are you continually returning to […]