With graduate degrees from St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore and Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., the Rev. Dr. Wanda Bynum Duckett has traditional faith leadership credentials. Her career path affirmed it: she rose from itinerant ministry to serve as superintendent of the United Methodist Church’s former Baltimore Metropolitan District for eight years.
Then, she retired and rewired.
After years of preaching in a more traditional mode, Duckett now spits the gospel with the power and energy of a hip-hop artist or slam poet. That’s with good reason: Bynam Duckett, 64, is melding art forms found in nightclubs and coffee houses with Scripture — a unique spiritual blend she calls “Sacred Slam”:…