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COLLEGE OF PREACHING

November 1-4, 2027

In 1991, the centennial year of St Clement’s Church, the parish established the College for Excellence in Preaching to provide Canadian clergy the opportunity to study with well-known homilists in order to gain master skills in the art of preaching.

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Guest Presenter
The Rev. Dr. HyeRan Kim-Cragg
Rev. Dr. HyeRan Kim-Cragg was appointed the 14th principal of Emmanuel College, her Alma Mater, in 2022 and is the first racialized person to lead the institution and to be promoted to full professor (2021) in the College’s nearly 100-year history. As a leading postcolonial scholar in homiletics, Kim-Cragg is committed to an interdisciplinary approach to homiletics and has been actively addressing climate crisis issues in recent years. Kim-Cragg has been a co-convenor of the workgroup “Preaching, Environment, and Climate Crisis” of the Academy of Homiletics (AOH) since 2022. She has been elected to be the president in 2028. She is the author of fifteen books, including Moments in Time (2024), Practical Theology Amid Environmental Crises (2023), Postcolonial Preaching (2021), and Interdependence (2018). Her articles dealing with the climate crisis and preaching have been published in Religions and Global Religion and Climate Crisis (2026). She is working on her monograph Preaching Ecologically (Bloomsbury T & T Clark), and currently co-editing Prophetic Preaching for a Planet in Peril (Cascade). Both will be published in 2027
Location & Duration
The College usually takes place bi-annually in a residential setting at Queen of the Apostles Renewal Centre in Mississauga, ON in late autumn for 3-4 days. The Centre is located close to Toronto’s Pearson Airport and 25 km from downtown Toronto.

Rooms are private with shared bath and shower.
Cost
The College is primarily financed by:
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  • The College of Preaching Fund of St. Clement’s Church
  • The Lewis S. Garnsworthy Memorial Trust of The Anglican Foundation of Canada

Each participant is asked to contribute $400.
Who is invited to attend?
For more information contact:
  • Clergy with 5 years of experience in preaching who are nominated by their diocesan bishops
  • 15 clergy from the Diocese of Toronto
  • 5 clergy from each of 3 Canadian dioceses and/or military chaplains
CollegeofPreaching@stclementsto.ca
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