Week Three
Theme: Remembering as Resistance, Hope as Practice
by Rev. Dr. Dominique Robinson, Assistant Professor of Preaching
Begin by watching the Video Reflection:
Questions for Reflection and Discussion:
- Where do you find yourself emotionally in this season of Lent (energized, weary, hopeful, or uncertain)?
- How does remembering Black history or women’s history deepen your understanding of faith and endurance?
- What does it mean to practice hope when answers or change feel delayed?
- In what ways have you seen God’s patience at work in your own life or community?
- What spiritual practices help you remember God’s faithfulness when the future feels unclear?
Scripture and Other References:
Primary Text:
- Lamentations 3:31-33
Secondary Texts:
- Hebrews 12:1
- Luke 13:6–9
- Psalm 77:11
Download the video reflection here. Search for the download icon under the speakers name.
Download a PDF of all content for Week Three here.
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Rev. Dr. Dominique Robinson
Rev. Dominique A. Robinson, DMin, is a millennial Womanist homiletician and justice advocate. She serves as Southwest's John E. Hines Assistant Professor of Preaching. She undergirds scholar-ministry praxis with prophetic witness, social justice, digital media, preaching, and religious communication. She earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Gospel and Culture in May 2017. Her dissertation, "iHomiletic™: Preaching that Clicks," is groundbreaking research, and services to assist faith leaders with developing impactful ministry methodologies that employ technology and social media linguistics. She currently is a Ph.D. student at Christian Theological Seminary in the world’s first African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric Ph.D. program. Her current research focuses on developing a “diversability”-centered homiletic rooted in Womanist discourse. Additional research interests are African American religiosity, Black Church traditions, millennial womanism, liturgy, youth and young spiritual formation, and digital discipleship. She is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church.
