Lament-Driven Preaching

"""In Lament-Driven Preaching, Eliana Ku names suffering with blunt, unvarnished honesty. Her proclamatory offering is a courageous call to confront the painful events, relationships, and conditions that cause us to lament. She does not shy away from the inscrutable mysteries of suffering but does her best to come to terms with them biblically, theologically, and homiletically. Ku ultimately invites readers to step out in an intimate dance of hope whose choreographer is no other than the God of love."" --HyeRan Kim-Cragg, professor of preaching, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto ""Eliana Ku's book is a cure for what afflicts so much North American preaching: our stupefying, inveterate cheerfulness. If we are afraid of pain, we'll never break through to hope. Go ahead and weep in sermons. Jesus does."" --Jason Byassee, senior pastor, Timothy Eaton Memorial Church ""Facing real suffering in our world, Eliana Ku holds that traditions of lament in preaching create 'a language of hope that can be heard as the voice of the gospel.' In a time of easy answers and simplistic thinking, she beautifully embraces complexity in bridging Western theology and Korean culture, private grief and public injustice, and preaching theory and praxis, all to help preachers link suffering and hope for a church and public square desperately in need of that word."" --Patricia Dutcher-Walls, retired professor of Hebrew Bible, Vancouver School of Theology"