How Does Creation Speak? Interwoven Preaching Between Mindfulness and Resistance

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.