Perkins Sermon Symposium
Sponsored by the Office of the Dean and Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence
Three dates. Three preachers. One topic.
Each semester, we will have three preachers, in three consecutive months, offer a sermon on the same topic, issue, biblical text, doctrine, homiletical approach, or the like. One of the preachers will be a homiletician from another institution, another will be a working preacher, and the third will be a Perkins faculty member. We are asking the preachers to keep their sermons to twenty minutes or less, leaving the rest of the hour for Q&A with them.
All events will take place in Kirby Commons at 1:30 pm. See below for each live-stream link.
Fall 2026: Christian Nationalism
November 4, 2026: Steve Long
D. Stephen Long, Ph.D., is the Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. The author or editor of fourteen books, Long is ordained in The United Methodist Church. Previous appointments include Marquette University, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, St. Joseph's University, and Duke Divinity School.