Short post today.
I have a bad habit of reading during the sermon on Sundays. Honestly, I can get bored.
In my opinion, church sermons typically go against the ideas of adult learning theory especially in the age of social media. Also, I think sermons often retread ground as they go over the same issues over and over again.
Our new pastor at the PC-USA church that I attend does give good sermons. She has led our congregation for 2 years, and I think her preaching ability is a rare exception of thoughtfulness and presentation
I’m also not a fan of “passing the peace” at church. I think it is tribal (friend groups just talk to each other), too long, not healthy for people who are visiting a church for the first time, and not healthy for introverts (like me). Good posts about this issue are here and here and here.
Anyway, today I listened to a great sermon about Exodus 17: 1-7. Our pastor made some open & relational adjacent points about this Old Testament story. Good stuff.
Great read but the publisher (Open Court) misspelled the last name on the book.
I did, however, convert to reading during the passing of the peace. I greeted the folks directly around me and then read this wonderful passage from Charles Hartshorne’s book, “Creative Synthesis & Philosophic Method.”
One may agree with what Hartshorne is saying here or not, but the writing is glorious. It was like receiving a good second sermon today.
Hope you have a wonderful week!
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