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Rev. Dr. Lisa Maxine Goods
Rev. Dr. Lisa Maxine Goods is a pastor, practitioner-scholar and chaplain with exceptional preaching, teaching and pastoral care skills. Rev. Goods is a published and award-winning preacher in the priestly-prophetic African American tradition. A homiletic scholar, Rev. Goods possesses a passion for social justice, outstanding administrative proficiency and a desire to participate in the spiritual growth of God’s people, care for the hurting and to do work that promotes justice, peace and love in the world.
EDUCATION
PhD - African American Preaching & Sacred Rhetoric
Christian Theological Seminary
Present
DOCTOR OF MINISTRY
Chicago Theological Seminary
May 2020
MASTER OF DIVINITY DEGREE McCormick Theological Seminary
May 2009
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE
Finance – Pennsylvania State University
May 1987
EXPERIENCE
05_MY PUP, OTIS
A SERMON
Listen to Rev. Lisa preach "Waiting to Exhale."
RECOGNITION
AWARDS
Ellen and James Taylor Award in Preaching
McCormick Theological Seminary - 2009
Ellen and James Taylor Award in Preaching
McCormick Theological Seminary - 2008
James Halsey Imagination in Preaching Award
McCormick Theological Seminary - 2007
Malcom X/Fannie Lou Hamer Student Leadership Award
Penn State University - 1987
PUBLICATIONS
Your Survival Plan for Times Like These (Sermon)
The African American Pulpit - Summer Edition 2010
Ending the Identify Crisis: Do You Know Him (Sermon)
The African American Pulpit - Seminarian Edition, Fall 2006
Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Faith: Testimonies of African American Women Living by Faith, Goods, L Editor, et al, Covenant United Church of Christ, Self Published 2012
Covenant Word - Editor-in-Chief
Publication of Covenant United Church of Christ 2006-2017
FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
OR MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES
CONTACT
REV. DR. LISA GOODS
708-712-5099