How to Preach

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of preaching in Orthodox parishes and the lack of emphasis on homiletics in seminary education.

With the expected influx of ordinations to the priesthood hoping to keep up with the recent surge of new converts coming into Orthodox parishes, many new priests will be stepping into pulpits (metaphorical or otherwise) to preach. Given the importance of preaching in the life of a parish (St. John Chrysostom knows what I mean), I am surprised at how comparatively little importance it is given in some places. When I was in seminary back in the Jurassic period we had many, many classes on the Old and New Testament each year, many offerings of Church History, many classes in Theology, but only one class on Homiletics. One asks: what’s the point of learning all that other stuff if you can’t effectively share it?

People in this episode

Host: Fr. Lawrence R. Farley

Topics covered

• preaching
• ordination
• Orthodox Christianity
• homiletics
• seminary education

Keywords

• preaching
• ordination
• Orthodox
• homiletics
• seminary
• Christianity
• St. John Chrysostom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Orthodox parishes, Ancient Faith Ministries

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