The Four Voices of Preaching: Communicating Faith in a Connected World

Robert Stephen Reid (PhD, University of Washington) is emeritus professor of Communication, University of Dubuque, Iowa. He directed the MA in Organizational Communication and Leadership 2001-2017 and served as Communication Department Head 2000-2014. He is author of The Four Voices of Preaching (Brazos Press, 2006) Preaching Mark (Chalice, 1999), co-author of, The Six Deadly Sins of Preaching: Becoming Responsible for the Faith We Proclaim (Abingdon, 2012) and Connecting with the Congregation: Rhetoric and the Art of Preaching (Abingdon, 1999). His scholarly essays include, "Preaching in the Baptist Theological Family," in Preaching the Manifold Grace of God (Cascade, 2022), "The Leave-Taking Sermon: Mark Driscoll and the Challenge of Authenticity," in Rhetoric of the Protestant Sermon in America (Lexington, 2020), "A Rhetoric of Christian Discourse," (Journal of Communication and Religion, 2008) and "Solzhenitsyn's Christian Civilization Rhetoric," in And the Word Became Flesh (Pickwick, 2009). He is co-author of a textbook, Connecting with Your Audience: Making Public Speaking Matter, 2nd ed. (Kendall-Hunt, 2016) that is distinguished by its use of Supreme Court opinions for student values-in-dispute speeches, current legislative proposals for policy-in-dispute speeches, and personal experience for the basic informative speech design. He lives near Seattle, Washington, with his spouse, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reid.