Tending Tomorrow: Rev. Dr. Sarah Han & Laura Bevan Alexander

Rev. Dr. Sarah Han offers a compelling lecture on preaching in Canada today, casting a vision for an “epic” homiletic that is eschatological, proclamational, incarnational, and Christological. Speaking from her own experience as a Korean-Chinese-Canadian preacher, Han weaves personal narrative with sharp cultural analysis to ask what gospel meta-narrative can hold Canada’s growing diversity together. She argues for a preaching practice rooted in the margins—responsive to pluralism, digital culture, and post-Christendom realities—and passionately calls for Christ-centred proclamation that is lived out in community. Respondent Laura Bevan reflects on Han’s insights through her own lenses of Irish-Canadian identity and theological formation, exploring the implications of marginality, power, and reconciliation in the Canadian church. Together, the episode probes how preaching can be both rooted in particular identity and radically open to God's work among the diverse peoples of Canada.