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Faith? There’s an app for that
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jmcgee
And what started as a fad is becoming a trend, according to Reuters: Father Tom Eichenberger began a recent sermon by playing an iPhone ring tone of church bells into the microphone and talking about how praying is like using the popular mobile device. “The same rules apply,” he told the Sunday mass congregation at…
What do you preach at a wedding?
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jmcgee
That’s the question that is lurking in the back of Cathleen Falsani’s mind. She’s been asked to officiate at the wedding of two friends, and is mulling what to say. From the Huffington Post: In the Book of Common Prayer’s traditional marriage vows, which Susan and Todd have chosen to exchange this weekend, I will…
Preparation H (for homily)
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jmcgee
How does a preacher prepare for the Sunday homily? A local paper in Oregon took up that question this weekend and asked preachers of various denominations — and got an interesting array of answers: Quaker pastor Stan Thornburg of North Valley Friends Church writes out his sermon in its entirety, but he rarely reads it.…
On homilies: “How can you plant seeds?”
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jmcgee
A bit fat h/t to Mike “Googling God” Hayes, who is pointing readers to this very good chin-scratcher about what makes for good preaching in the Catholic Church. From the Pray Tell blog: In the midst of all the bustle around the introduction of the new translations of the Mass texts, and how they might…
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