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October 17, 2005
PreachingSucks.com
I guess my speculation about AdministrationSucks.com wasn't as far-fetched as I thought. Apparently there actually is a website for the busy composer of homiletics. For real:
The Rev. Timothy Merrill is a senior editor at Homileticsonline.com, a subscription-based Web site at which preachers pay $59.95 per year for tools to help them craft a better homily.He likened homiletics to a grocery store, with all the ingredients for a good homily lining the store's aisles. "We just do the shopping for preachers who are too busy and we bring those ingredients home and put them all on the kitchen table," said Merrill. "But once the ingredients are on the table, it's up to you to mix them together, put them in the oven and come up with your final product."
Posted by senioritis at October 17, 2005 06:23 AM
Comments
It's been true for as long as there've been preachers, I assume, that "preacher's little helper" is at the pastor's elbow. Even my Dad read little books on how to lively up the Children's Sermon and so forth; and I suppose this isn't so different from prepared lesson plans for elementary school phonics.
But it makes me cringe to think about *which* preachers are "too busy" to write their own sermons from the heart, but still have time to deliver them: who are willing to infuse a pulp script with apparent sincerity, presenting a conglomeration of decontextualized scripture and illogical faux dogma as gospel. Touched by a rhetorical angel, and for such a reasonable price!
Posted by: Carolyn at October 18, 2005 04:53 PM