Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: #Perceived Outsider. -- Personhood and pulpit personas -- Faux pioneering in the ministries of Black Women -- Resetting the rules of engagement -- When Bodies and Unimaginative Practice Collide - Black. Woman. Preacher. --The limits and dangers of unimaginative practice -- The collision of unimaginative practice with real bodies -- An act of constrained invention -- Ingenuity for the Sake of Proclamation. Preaching as a communally defined practice -- Proclamation as a marking experience -- The black preacher as a ghostly image -- A practice that opens and generatively disrupts -- Imitating, mimicking, and preaching -- Communal choreography and sacred vibrations -- Mining life for preaching. Connections and bridges to life -- (Re)imaginings of the familiar -- Ingenuity and everyday life -- (Re)imagining sermon development -- Using the familiar as a resource -- Recovering sacred texts for preaching. Interplay and play --(Re)imaginings of texts -- Ingenuity and interpreting scripture -- (Re)imagining sermon development -- Creative intelligence and interpretation -- Finding "a word from the Lord" for today. Very present truth -- (Re)imaginings for here and now -- Ingenuity and truth telling -- (Re)imagining sermon development -- Immediacy textured -- Locating God and faith on the ground. A very present help --(Re)imaginings of the ordinarily sacred -- Ingenuity and the story of faith --(Re)imagining sermon development -- Sacred storytelling -- Conclusion: Risk-taking for the sake of life. Leaving space for possibilities -- Cultivating Risk-Taking for Ingenuity -- Preach, Regardless.