How Does Creation Speak? Interwoven Preaching Between Mindfulness and Resistance
Sabrina Müller
International Journal of Homiletics November 6, 2025 DOI: 10.21827/ijh.8.1.38-51 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Keywords | Resistance ecology Reflection computer programming Spiritual practice Aesthetics Epistemology Variety cybernetics Psychoanalysis |
| Key points | Argues that preaching can be reframed as an embodied, mindful practice of resistance that speaks with, rather than about, creation. |
Abstract
By drawing on personal experiences with animals and the practice of mindful movement, this article explores how preaching might be understood as an interwoven practice of mindfulness and resistance. It asks how preaching might emerge not merely as speech about creation, but in resonance with it. Following the rhythm of mindful walking, the article itself becomes a meditative, theological journey through five steps: arriving, sensing estrangement, walking as resistance, preaching in relation, and returning. In doing so, this article reframes homiletical reflection as a shared, embodied, and more-than-human practice that listens and speaks with, rather than speaks about, creation.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. | 2004 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mechanisms of mindfulness | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |