{"id":4203,"date":"2010-03-20T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T10:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/what-the-sermons-said.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T10:24:18","slug":"what-the-sermons-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/what-the-sermons-said.html","title":{"rendered":"What the sermons said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an unusual idea, and it might make for an interesting exercise for a homiletics class.<\/p>\n<p>A group of journalists headed out to 10 different churches in Ireland last Sunday, to hear the homilies and write about what they heard.  Were they relevant?  Did they connect with people?  Were they too long or too short?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/weekend\/2010\/0320\/1224266694912.html\">You can read the results here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/weekend\/2010\/0320\/1224266694912.html\">  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an unusual idea, and it might make for an interesting exercise for a homiletics class. A group of journalists headed out to 10 different churches in Ireland last Sunday, to hear the homilies and write about what they heard. Were they relevant? Did they connect with people? 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