{"id":4,"date":"2014-10-17T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T17:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:47:01","slug":"4-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/files\/CSS-Banner-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/files\/CSS-Banner-2.png\" alt=\"Title banner for the Center for Sermon Studies\" width=\"900\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/files\/CSS-Banner-2.png 980w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/files\/CSS-Banner-2-300x46.png 300w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/files\/CSS-Banner-2-768x117.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Center for Sermon Studies was founded in 2014 as a service to Marshall faculty and students, members of faith communities in the tri-state area, and researchers around the world. It is multidisciplinary and interfaith, bringing scholars and practitioners together to discuss sermon texts and the art of preaching from a variety of academic and religious perspectives. In 2024, the Center began a partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regent.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/international-sermon-studies-association\/\">International Sermon Studies Association<\/a>, housed at Regent College in Virginia Beach, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Links to projects sponsored by the Center can be found at the top of this page. Those interested in discussing matters related to preaching are invited to follow the Center&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/center.for.sermon.studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>. For more information about the Center&#8217;s work, please contact the <a href=\"mailto:ellisonr@marshall.edu\">Director<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Sermon Studies was founded in 2014 as a service to Marshall faculty and students, members of faith communities in the tri-state area, and researchers around the world. It is multidisciplinary and interfaith, bringing scholars and practitioners together to discuss sermon texts and the art of preaching from a variety of academic and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}