six word sermon

Day 8 – Bishop Stephen Charleston’s Sermon

commcanon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:16:37 +0000

Bishop Stephen Charleston, Assistant Bishop of California, preached a prophetic sermon at Wednesday’s Daily Eucharist. Watch it at the Media Hub. (No text available).

Here it is in six words:

Church Wake Up! Now’s Our Chance.

Day 7 – Abagail Nelson’s Sermon

commcanon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:27:56 +0000

Today Abagail Nelson, senior vice president for programs at Episcopal Relief and Development, preached a 2,307 word sermon.

Whoa, that’s hard to put into six little words – but how about this:

Ubuntu: Rooted In Love, Courage, Faith

Day Six – Courtney Cowart’s Sermon

commcanon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:47:45 +0000

Courtney Cowart, director of Advocacy and Community Affairs in the Office of Disaster Response in the Diocese of Louisiana, preached at Monday’s Daily Eucharist.

I’ve condensed her 1,201 word sermon into the following six (surprise!) words:

Walk Dark Roads – Choose to Serve

Day Five – The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori’s Sermon

commcanon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:48:55 +0000

Bishop Katharine preached a wonderful 1,510 word sermon at the UTO Ingathering Eucharist at 10 a.m. this morning.

Here it is boiled down to six words

travel light as sacrement to world

Day 4 – Sermon by Ray Suarez

commcanon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:10:37 +0000

Today journalist Ray Suarez of PBS’s, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” preached a 1,782 word sermon at General Convention’s daily Eucharist. You may read it at Episcopal Cafe or watch it on the Media Hub.

Here it is in six words:

Stay Ourselves But Open Arms – Today

Integrity Eucharist: Bishop Barbara Harris’ sermon

commcanon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:59:24 +0000

There’s no telling how many words Bishop Barbara Harris, retired bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, preached in her fearless exuberance Thursday night, but you can find a great report on it (and a wonderful headline) on the Diocese of Massachusetts blog by my friend Tracy J. Sukraw.

You can also watch it on the Media Hub.

Bishop Harris is hard to reduce to six words, but, well, that’s the point of this blog.

No Drawing Lines on God’s Favor

Day 3: Bonnie Anderson’s 1,425 word sermon in six words

commcanon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:25:07 +0000

The text of the sermon is available here.

My version doesn’t take up much space. It being only six words and all. Here they are:

Unity Can Open Us To Change

How does that work for you? Think you can capture it better? Go for it in the comment section.?

Day 2: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s 1,834 word mediation in six words

commcanon — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:33:35 +0000

Here is the full text of the Archbishop’s meditation.

Here is my rendering in, well, six words:

God fills void – get to work.

Comment below to offer your version.

Now off to either the Program, Budget and Finance hearing or the World Mission hearing or both.

More later,

Heid0

Welcome to Six Word Sermon

commcanon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:32:00 +0000

You might have heard about the six-word memoir phenomenon – the sport of condensing your life story into six words.

This morning I was attempting to give a brief rendering of the day’s sermon by the Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, on Day One of the Church’s General Convention in Anaheim, California. Because I’m hosting the Daily Wrap, a short – really short, two minute – video news show, I needed to capture the essence of the sermon in a limited number of words. So I thought, “How about six?”

Six Word Sermon was born. Like an hour ago.

For each day of General Convention, I will condense the sermon from the Daily Eucharist at General Convention into six words and reveal them on the Daily Wrap. (It should be up at the Media Hub by about 8 p.m. Pacific Time.)

Once I decided to do this it occurred to me that not everyone who hears or reads the sermons will agree with my six words. So here’s your chance to post your own version of each day’s sermon.

Bishop Katharine’s sermon is on-line here as on-demand video and here in print at Episcopal Cafe.

Have at it.

While you don’t have to use your name, you do have to be respectful. Sermonizing is hard.

But we all know that six word sermonizing is harder.

six words for July 8: New Hearts Bear Mission Fruit